Unity
SC
Isilon
VxRail
PowerMax
100

What is the max File System size on Unity?

256TB

100

How do we cluster multiple arrays.

Federation.

100

What is the management platform?

OneFS

100

What components make up a disk group.

At least one cache drive. At least one capacity drive.

100

What is the new media type that utilizes NVMe protocol?

SCM.

200

What are the main differences between the Unity XT 380 and the rest of the XT line?

Single proc vs dual proc, and scalability in terms of memory and drive count.

200

This feature allows for disaster recovery.

Live volume.

200

How does it scale?

Scale out.

200

What are the set of rules that determine a VM's protection settings?

Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)

200

What is the starting size of a brick?

10U

300

This software allows users to pin specific workloads to a certain tier?

FAST VP

300

What is RAID tiering?

Can move data between different RAID groups within the same drives.

300

What feature allows for automated tiering?

SmartPools.

300

What is the software that pools the storage resources of all the nodes in a single cluster.

vSAN

300

What are the two licensing models?

Essentials and Pro.

400

This software feature creates a copy of data to help with spinning disk performance?

FAST Cache

400

The two pieces of equipment needed to enable D@RE.

Self encrypting drives and an external key manager.
400

What is WORM?

Write once, read many.

400

What balances workloads across a cluster?

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

400

Name all of the SLA categories that allow a workload to see a dedicated response time.

Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, *Optimized

500

Explain Dynamic Pooling.

Scale by 1 drive at a time. No hot spare. Faster rebuild times.


500

Explain distributed sparing. And how is it different on SC than with Unity.

Scale by 1 drive at a time. No hot spare. Faster rebuild times. Can do it on hybrid arrays.

500

Explain how ECS can be used in conjunction with Isilon?

Leverage Isilon for data and workloads that require greater performance, then tier colder data to ECS for long term retention.

500

Explain the difference between vSAN ready nodes and VxRail.

vSan ready nodes do not have the lifecycle management that comes with VxRail Manager. vSan ready nodes have flexibility in hardware choice.

500

Explain the value of NVMe over fabric.

Brings NVMe protocol to the network. Allows a host to access shared storage with the same performance as if it were a local drive on the host.