Storage
How does DARE work in Unity?
Encrypts all user data on the array at the drive level.
Give three barriers to cloud
Unpredictable costs, management complexity, cloud inconsistencies, skill gaps, limited visbility.
Explain traditional AI vs Gen AI?
Traditional AI is a type of AI that is designed to follow predefined rules and patterns. This type of AI is often used to solve problems, make predictions, and automate tasks.
Generative AI is a type of AI that can create new and original content. This content can take many forms, including text, images, music, and videos. Generative AI models learn from large datasets of existing content.
What are some challenges with managing file data and how can Dell help?
Looking for 3 V story
Volume, velocity, variety
PowerScale gives you a single file namespace and platform to make data management very simple
Can handle any file workload
Manage PBs like TBs as you continue to scale (252 nodes)
Who is followed by Cava on Instagram?
Jase!
What is PowerStore MetroSync and why does it matter to a customer?
What is the difference between cloud-to-ground and ground-to-cloud?
CTG: Dell infrastructure connected to cloud platform
GTC: Dell software within public cloud
What are the 3 pillars of our "Why Dell for AI?" pitch and explain the value of each
Servers - our partnership with NVIDIA has allowed us build upon on industry leading server platform with NVIDIA's GPUs -- allowing us to handle any AI workload
Storage - we have the #1 scale out NAS array on the market today, capable of storing any file workload - making management very simple, since you will now have a single platform for all your file needs, can hit on OneFS, SmartPools and variety of node types (can also talk about ECS here as well, our object storage solution)
Services - we leverage and AI specialist consulting team that can help you design, implement and scale your AI models and train them in an efficient way
What would you say to a customer who thinks firewalls are enough?
What team member has experienced a volcano eruption??
Madi!
What are all the differences between PowerStore and Unity?
PowerStore
Unity
Explain how Flex on Demand pricing works as if you're talking to the CEO.
A flexible consumption model that meters the usage of storage (20-50% plus growth) and memory (for servers).
How does ProSupport with Lifecycle Extension for PowerStore compare to Pure's Evergreen program?
More flexible - apply credit to new controller
New replacement of the same model you have to newer generation
Upgrade from current model to higher model (of same generation)
Net new controllers at a discount (scale out)
Apply credit to capacity expansion (25% discount on drives if you don't need controllers)
Less restrictive - doesn't require signing a new 3 year contract
How does PowerScale scale, and how is it better than a traditional NAS
Scale out - always add compute and storage together, choose different types of nodes for the right workload. Better than traditional NAS bacause simpler to scale, better performance as you grow, and you never will out grow the system so you don’t have to keep managing more and more interfaces with multiple NAS arrays - OneFS makes managing simple at any scale
This team member is an active sky diver!
Will
What is RAID and why does it matter?
Redundant Array of Independent Disks
It provides 3 key things:
Protection
Aggregate capacity
Aggregate performance
There are different RAID configurations ranging from 0 to 10, not every customer is going to have the same one, depends on how much inherent protection they want
RAID 1 is mirroring and then the other types involve a parity drive or hot spare where data is striped among drives in the RAID group to maximize efficiency when it comes to protection
They could also tie in dynamic pooling if they wanted to here
What are three Pros of the Public Cloud
cost, scalability, reduced management complexity,
Explain Dynamic pooling, Resource pooling, Smart Pooling?
Dynamic Pooling: For the Unity – there is additional head room on each drive so if there were to be a drive failure there would be space for the data to rebuild itself across all drives – replaces traditional RAID (redundancy) and allows for single drive scaling
Resource Pooling: Within Dell's HCI portfolio – Because both storage and compute resources are virtualized, if a node in the environment were to go down the environment would pull resources from the other nodes to ensure the environment is running smoothly
SmartPooling: Feature within OneFS - Policy based automated tiering within the appliance and different node types – allows you to best utilize your investment in flash
Give 3 reasons why OneFS is the secret sauce.
This team member was on a popular HBO show
Andrea!
Walk a customer through the Intelligent Bucket of PowerStore.
Programmable Infrastructure
Autonomous Appliance
APEX AIOps for Infrastructure Observability
What are 3 of the new rebanding updates within Dell's APEX Portfolio?
APEX Block storage for AWS --> Dell PowerFlex for AWS
APEX Backup Services --> Dell Powerprotect backup services
APEX Protection Storage --> Dell PowerProtect Data Domain Virtual Addition
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How does PPDM transparent snapshots work and what is a customer required to have for it to work?
VM image method that doesn’t require compromise and eliminates application disruption during VM backups. The Transparent Snapshots Data Mover is deployed in the VMware ESXi infrastructure through a PowerProtect Data Manager VIB. This deployment creates consistent VM backup copies and writes the copies to the protection storage. Only for VMWare Workloads.
What team member was in a food Ad when they were little?
Savana