Storage Roadmap

Storage Fundamentals

100

What are some key differences between HDD/ SSD

- performance of SSD, low latency, low power requirements, low heat output, expensive

- hdd spinning mechanical components, higher latency, higher heat output, cheap

200

DAS Advantages & Disadvantages?

Advantages: 

- inexpensive 

- simple to deploy 

Disadvantages: 

- application and data siloed creating single point of failure 

- limited scalability 

300

Describe 2 of the benefits of the Future-Proof program?

- storage data reduction 

- data protection deduplication

- cyber recovery 

- tech refresh & recycle 

- CloudIQ

- Anytime upgrade 

- Flexible payment solutions

400

What 3 things does RAID provide?

1. Protection 

2. Aggregate capacity 

3. Aggragate performance

500

What is the most common hard drive sector size?

512 bytes

PowerStore

100

Name the three buckets of PowerStore

Datacentric, Intelligent, Adaptable

200

What type of workloads is PowerStore ideal for?

Business critical workloads

300

What is the key benefit of distributed sparing?

enables faster rebuilds/ reduces risk with the faster rebuilds 

400

Describe 2 ways that programmable infrastructure can help IT teams

• Automate storage provisioning and deployment
• Create custom storage configurations and policies
• Integrate with other IT systems and applications
• Monitor and troubleshoot storage performance and issues
• Scale storage capacity and performance as needed

500

What is the feature that extends the VxRail lifecycle management?

Apps On

Unity

100

What are the benefits of active/ active controllers?

Better performance and higher availability 

200

What is the business value of dynamic pooling?

Pay for only the space needed without being forced to expand in large quantities

300

 Name 2 features of Unity

FAST VP, FAST Cache, Dynamic Pooling, Active/Active Controllers, D@RE

400

What is the lowest model Unity?

380

500

How many Unity's can you put together in a cluster?

Trick question, you can't

PowerVault

100

What are three things to call out/ describe PowerVault

Simple, fast, affordable

200

What type of workloads is PowerVault ideal for?

General purpose workloads

300

Does APEX Subscriptions work with PowerVault?

Yes

400

What are the three performance tiers?

performance, standard, and archive

500

What's the name of the disk storage technology that allows for single drive add ons

ADAPT

Data Center Fundamentals

100

Name 3 components that are in a datacenter?

networking, compute, and storage 

200

What does GUI stand for and mean?

Graphical user interface. It is the visual interaction with a program. Example: windows desktop

300

Twinax cables can be used with a Powerstore and supermicro servers

False

400

What does CPU & GPU mean?

Central processing Unit and Graphical Processing Unit

500

What is virtualization?

In simple terms, extracting all your resources into a shared pool