PSTORE
APEX
Miscellaneous
Backup/Cyber
VxRail
100

How many appliances can be added to a Powerstore Cluster?

4

100

Couldn't think of an APEX question 

so- Question - What company acquired Vmware

Broadcom

100

What are the three interns names

Zeid, Tim, Griffin

100

Which Powerprotect offering entails a fully integrated backup solution?

DP Series

100

What is the minimum node count for a production VxRail Cluster?

3

200

What drive type is faster than NVMe SSD's, and can be used for meta data tiering

SCM Drives (Storage class memory)

200

What is the company that is the key behind our BaaS

Druva!

200

What are some examples of rich file media? 

Video data, Audio files, PDF, Images etc...

200

What is DDVE?

Data domain virtual edition

200

What is the minimum node count for a High Availability Cluster?

4

300

T/F: A unified Powerstore reserves 50% of cpu resources to run file services. 

TRUE

300

What does the acronym APEX stand for?

Nothing 

300

Name Every state we cover accounts in

Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana

(North Dakota), (Kentucky)

Coming soon- Iowa, Illinois

300

What is the purpose of Cyber Sense in our cyber recovery vault? 

24/7 Data scanning to ensure data integrity. 

300

Layering NSX licensing onto a vxrail cluster allows for what?

Network virtualizartion

400

With Powerstore 4:1 DRR, 100TB usable equates to what effective capacity? 

400 TBe

400

What are the roles/responsibilities of the customer and Dell if they utilize Apex

Customer maintains operational control of workloads and applications 

Dell Technologies manages the infrastructure – from deployment to monitoring, operations, optimization and support 

Shared and collaborative responsibilities: Network, host connectivity and security


400

Who were the two founders of EMC

Richard Egan and Robert Marino

400

What is DD Boost? And how does it add value to a backup solution?

Extends some of the data reduction/deduplication up to host level. Allows for more data transmitted over the network = higher throughput on Data domain. 

400

What are the 6 VxRail Platform Options?

E Series "Everything"

P Series "Performance"

V Series "VDI-Optimized"

S Series "Storage Dense"

G Series "General-Purpose"

D Series "Durable"

500

Messaging! Why would a customer utilize Powerstore X?

AppsOn - Run VM's directly on Powerstore. 

Use cases- Edge workloads and storage intensive VM's. 

500

Messaging! How does Apex deliver outcomes to the customer with a cloud like consumption model??

words. 

500

Messaging! Tell a customer what Live Optics is, and why we run it.

Non evasive, host level performance stats. Especially useful in Vmware environments. 

500

Messaging! What is an air-gapped cyber vault? Why are tape backups not considered a wholistic ransomware solution?

Physical network segmentation. 

Time to restore from tape backups - days to weeks. Systems still offline, tape backups not always up to date. Data still lost. 

500

Messaging! What are the 3 Benefits of HCI adoption?

Agility, Scalability, Simplicity. 

Why.