Storage
True/False: You can use iscsi protocol with all of Dell's storage offerings.
What is False
What is the licensing price for hypervisors based upon?
What is the CPU cores
How did Dell update the branding of our CSG portfolio and why?
What is specialized performance users
Which operating system powers Data Domain appliances, ensuring advanced deduplication, security, and management features?
DDOS (Data Domain Operating System)
Can I store a VM with video data in PowerScale?
No
True/False: You can directly attach a powerstore to a server(host).
What is False
Both Teams: Write down as many components of a server, team with the most gets the points.
What is:
CPU
GPU
NIC
Memory Dimms/Memory Slots
Motherboard
Drive slots/Drives
Storage Controller Card
Fans
How did Dell update the branding of our CSG portfolio and why?
What is:
We simplified the nomenclature to three product lines.
We did this because customers gave feedback that the old branding was confusing
What are the newest models of Data Domain?
DD9910 and DD9410 (replacements); DD6410 (mid-range)
What is ECS?
ObjectScale
When it comes to licensing like VMware does the core count in your storage array matter?
What is nope
What is the specialized processor used for videos and animation that is front and center for AI servers?
What is the GPU
What are the different models of Dell Pro Max that I can buy?
What is Dell, Plus and Premium
Can PPDM software work to backup to 3rd party backup appliance (other than data domain)?
Yes
What type of detection does Superna’s “Ransomware Defender” provide on PowerScale to block malicious file modifications in real time?
Real-time threat detection
What does the DRR (Data reduction ratio) quantify? (what does it actually do?)
What is the deduplication and compression a system achieves.
Name four use cases for Poweredge servers.
What is:
Virtualization/Cloud
Al/ML
Edge/ Rugged
VDI
File Sever/NAS
Backup Target
HCI
What is the product line that did not change with the rebranding?
What is Alienware
Name three security features built into Data Domain appliances to enhance cyber resiliency, as highlighted in recent product overviews.
Data Immutability, Encryption (including FIPS 140-2), and Hardware Root of Trust
Name 4 protocols PowerScale can handle
SMB, NFS, CIFS, S3, HDFS, FTP
Which storage arrays can use metro node?
Bonus Question: (If you choose to answer you get an extra 150 points but if you get it wrong you get no points) Can 3rd party storage arrays use Metro Node?
What is Powerstore, powervault and unity, powermax
What is yes, Dell is about that money
Name two upgrades that the 17 Gen servers have?
Better performance is not an answer :)
What is:
Upgraded CPUs
New iDRAC
Smart Flow cooling
More models to target more customers
Name two reasons a customer would need an AI PCs
Using LLM locally
Using Copilot+
Using generative learning
In a cyber attack scenario, which optional analytics add-on provides a 99.99% detection accuracy for backup data corruption and is recommended for customers using a Cyber Recovery vault?
CyberSense
Name any 3 components of the Dell Data LakeHouse (AI Factory)
Dell Data Analytics Engine, Dell Lakehouse System Software, Scale out compute Poweredge with nvidia, scale out storage (powerscale or objectscale)