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What is DDVe?

Virtual Version of DD Series (VM)

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What hardware does APEX DSS Live on? 

1.) Powerstore: Block 

2.) Powerscale: File 

3.) DataDomain: BU 

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What is OneFS? 

OneFS is the Powerscales OS. 

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When was EMC acquired by Dell? 

2016 

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What are the 4 components of a computer? 

1.) CPU

2.) RAM 

3.) NIC 

4.) HDD/SSD 

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How does the DP Series Scale? 
  • Scalability: 8TB-96TB without     Dedupe, more with dedupe 
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    • Drives already in appliance, unlock as you need capacity (Cloud-Like Scale) (Pay for as you go)

    • 8 Tb - Can scale with 4TB, 24Tb start, scale up by 12 TB, (if use cloud, get 192 TB) 
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From APEX 1.0 WB, what are the three challenges with the public cloud? 

1.) Security 

2.) Compliance 

3.) Cost 

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How many drive slots are NVMe capable in the Unity? 

8 Drive slots 

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When did Dell start innovating around FLASH Technology? 

2008 

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What is VDI? 

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 

300

What are the three I's in Dell's Cyber Recovery Strategy? 

  • Isolation
  •  
    • Physical and logical separation of data 
      • Air gap and physical separation from main site  
  • Immutability 
    • Preserve original integrity of data
    • Data set cannot be changed 
  • Intelligence:  
    • ML & analytics identify threats  
      • Cybersense 
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How does ABS protect our customers data from a DR and CR standpoint? 

1.) Data-Sharding 

2.) Triplicated across 3 AWS storage zones 

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How does the Powerstore Scale? 

1.) Scale up: Add up to 3 DAE, 25 drives each. 

2.) Scale out: Add up to 4 different Powerstore's to 1 federation. 

300

How much money was the Dell EMC Merger?

$67 Billion 

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What are the 4 Powerscale Node Types? 

1.) AF 

2.) Hybrid 

3.) NVMe 

4.) Archival 

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What is the DP Series built on?

14gig Poweredge Server

400

What software turns APC into a hybrid cloud solution? 

VMWare cloud foundation 

400

What are the 2-virtualization software's for Azure Stack HCi? 

1.) Hypwr-V: Virtualizes compute resources 

2.) Storage spaces direct: Virtualizes storage resources 

400

What is Dell's current market cap? (Closest Answer) 

$56.59 billion 

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What are the 3 components of Powerstore's anytime upgrade program? 

Upgrade from: 

1.) Node to Node 

2.) Generation to Generation 

and 

3.) Scale out at a steep discount: Second appliance is discounted. 

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What are the 2 types of replication for DR and what 3 solutions does Dell offer to meet any RPO/RTO?  

  • 1.) RP4VM: A-Synchronous 
  • 2.) VPLEX: Synchronous 
  • 3.) Native Replication: Array to array 
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From APEX 1.0 WB: What are the three benefits of the APEX portfolio vs. the public cloud? 

1.) Simplicity 

2.) Agility

3.) Control 

500

What are the 4 building blocks of the Powerflex? 

1.) Networking 

2.) Software defined compute. 

3.) Software defined storage. 

4.) Powerflex Unified Manager 

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What was EMC's first unified storage appliance? (Legacy)

Clariion 

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What is BLOB Storage? 

Azures Object Storage