Hardware
What type of Drives does Unity support?
SSD (Flash), SAS (HDD), NL-SAS (Capacity HDD)
What is the name of the Management Software for Unity?
Unisphere!
What key workload types can Unity handle? Making it a 'Unified' system?
Block, File, and vVols!
Message "Unisphere"
Unisphere is an HTML5 based Management Interface, that provides a simplistic UI and experience for managing and monitoring you're Unity product.
How many Power Supplies does Unity have?
It has Two! Always two for Redundancy!
What File Protocols are supported by Unity?
NFS (Network File System) or SMB (Server Message Block)
What is the Data Reduction guarantee for UnityXT All Flash?
It is 3:1 - but ONLY for ALL FLASH. Hybrid Unity doesn't have a guarantee.
Message "Active - Active" Architecture
You pay and use the amount of hardware you require. Having the workload split between two controllers instead of paying for two controllers and having one sit idle incase of a rare chance of failure.
What is D@RE
Data @ Ret Encryption, the data get's encrypted before being written to media.
What is SPBM?
Software Policy Based Management - all built into Unisphere. Using storage policies to dictate where a VM will be stored, as opposed to choosing a datastore manually.
What RAID Protections does Unity support?
RAID 1, 5, 6, 1/0
Message "The benefit of using SBPM"
Allows administrators to create storage profiles so that VMs don't need to be individually provisioned and so that management can be automated. As example, policies for Performance and Protection requirements.
[T/F] Unity has an 'Active - Passive', architecture for it's controllers.
False - Unity as well as almost every other Dell Product is Active - Active!
[Unity 5.2 Update] What update has occurred for Data Reduction within Unity
What type of Native Replication does Unity support?
Native A-Sync, Sync, and Snapshots!
Message "Fast VP"
FAST VP accelerates the performance of a specific storage pool by automatically moving data within that pool to the appropriate drive technology, based on data access patterns.
What does Unity support that can enable Site to Site replication?
[Unity 5.2 Update] What update has occurred for Dynamic Pooling
Dynamic Pooling is now supported with Hybrid Pools. Meaning you can have a Dynamic Pool with both SSD and HDDs, as well as expand with single HDD or SSD additions.
What is the difference between Fast VP and Fast Cache?
Fast Cache copies data to a Flash Tier to help improve performance as a Cache Tier.
Fast VP moves data between different storage performance tiers, helping with performance and organization of data based on it's activity.
Message "Fast Cache"
FAST Cache utilizes flash drives as an additional cache layer within the system to temporarily store highly accessed data. This greatly increases performance on transactional workloads!