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What is the recommended option when configuring Dell EMC PowerStore nodes for High Availability?. Active/Active. Active/Passive with AULA. Synchronous Replication. Active/Passive.

Which Dell EMC Midrange solution is configured for block storage with a built-in hypervisor?. Unity XT. PowerStore X. SC 9000. PowerStore T.

How many fans in a Dell EMC PowerStore node can fail before it shuts down?. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Which Dell EMC tool uses an HTML5 interface and best practices to predict storage performance?. Unity Sizer. UniSphere. Midrange Sizer. MiTrend.

A customer sales order lists М.2 Devices as a line item. The order is for a Dell EMC Unity 380F array. How many М.2 Devices should appear in the order?. 2. 4. 6. 8.

What hardware is available on all Dell EMC Midrange storage?. NVMe disks. SEDs. 1 GbE I/O modules. 25 GbE I/O modules.

Which Dell EMC Unity OE 5.0 enhancements improve asynchronous replication?. NAS server mobility and Fan-out Replication. GeoSync and NAS server mobility. Cascade Replication and GeoSync. Fan-out and Cascade Replication.

What is the minimum recommended amount of Flash capacity in a Dell EMC Unity 480 Hybrid pool?. 5 %. 8 %. 10 %. 15 %.

Which block resources are supported with Dell EMC Unity asynchronous replication?. Consistency Groups and file systems. VMFS and NFS datastores. LUNs and file systems. LUNs and VMFS datastores.

When implementing FAST VP, which Dell EMC best practices should be followed?. Use the Start High then Auto Tier policy Maintain at least 15 percent pool capacity. Use the Auto Tier policy - Schedule relocations continually during normal operations. Use the Start High then Auto Tier policy Maintain at least 10 percent pool capacity. Use the Start High then Auto Tier policy Maintain at least 5 percent pool capacity.

A customer asks you about adding 4-port 1 GbE BaseT connectivity to their Dell EMC Unity XT series array. What should be your response?. 4-port 1GbE BaseT module is supported on Unity XT with the latest Enginuity code. 4-port 1GbE BaseT module is provided by the Mezz card on Unity 80 series models. 4-port 1GbE BaseT module is not available on Unity XT. 4-port 1GbE BaseT module is supported across all Unity models.

A customer has a Dell EMC Unity 680F array with a single pool consisting of 10 drives configured with RAID 5 (4+1). What is the minimum number of drives required to expand the pool?. 1. 5. 6. 7.

A Dell EMC PowerStore customer plans to migrate storage volumes across appliances within a cluster. They want to use minimal effort to ensure that the appliance avoids reaching full capacity. Which method is recommended?. Live Migrate. Assisted Migration. Resource Balance. Volume Placement.

Which SAS SSDs are supported by Dell EMC PowerStore?. 960 GB, 1920 GB, 3840 GB, and 7680 GB. 960 GB, 1920 GB, and 3840 GB only. 1920 GB, 3840 GB, 7680 GB, and 15360 GB. 1920 GB, 3840 GB, and 7680 GB only.

How does configuring snapshot retention differ when manually creating snapshots in the Dell EMC Unity GUI, compared to using the Unity CLI?. Manually created snapshots do not have the ‘No automatic deletion’ option. Snapshots created with Unity CLI have the ‘No automatic deletion’ option. Manually created snapshots have the ‘No automatic deletion’ option. Snapshots created with Unity CLI do not have the ‘No automatic deletion’ option. The retention period for manually created snapshots is days. The retention period for snapshots created with Unity CLI can be hours or days. The retention period for manually created snapshots can be hours or days. The retention period for snapshots created with Unity CLI is days.

Which QoS option is NOT supported by Dell EMC Unity XT?. Attached Snapshot. Individual or Group LUN. VMFS Datastore. iSCSI.

What is a best practice for host connectivity on Dell EMC PowerStore?. HBAs must be attached to a dual fabric and multi-path software is required. Requires multipath software and one HBA. Host must be directly attached, but there is no requirement for multipath software. Requires multipath software and iSCSI.

A storage administrator plans to complete a technology refresh from a Dell EqualLogic PS6100 to a Dell EMC PowerStore array. The affected hosts are running native MPIO. What is the recommended method to support an import to PowerStore?. Install DSITV on the hosts. Install EQL Hit Kit on the hosts. Use Dell Storage Manager and select Online Import. Install PowerStore ImportKit on the hosts.

What is the function of CMI on a Dell EMC Unity array?. Used for inter-SP communications. Acts as an extension of М.2 memory. Enables Vaulting to Disk. Handles API calls for HTTP client.

You are designing a Dell EMC Unity solution. You need to model expected array performance based om IOPS capability, storage capacity, and RAID type. Which Midrange Sizer design path should you take?. Application Oriented path. Performance Data Input path. System Designer path. Quick Configuration path.

What tabs are available on the Dell EMC PowerStore Manager Dashboard?. Health, Overview, Performance, and Capacity. Health, Efficiency, Performance, and Summary. Performance, Efficiency, and Capacity only. Performance, Overview, and Capacity only.

Which optional I/O Module card type is supported for both Dell PowerStore T and Dell PowerStore X?. 25 GbE. 8 Gb Fibre Channel. 10 GbE BaseT. 32 Gb Fibre Channel.

A customer has a Dell Unity XT 380F system with a single pool that is built from 24x 800 GB and 24x 1.6 TB SAS Flash 3 drives, and 14x 400 SAS Flash 2 drives. How many drive partnership groups were used to build the dynamic pool?. 3. 1. 2. 4.

A customer has a fully scaled-out Dell PowerStore T cluster and wants to ensure that PowerStore Manager is in a highly available configuration. How many instances of PowerStore Manager should be installed, and why?. Four. A customer should install one instance per appliance in the cluster. Zero. PowerStore Manager runs highly available by default. Eight. A customer should install one instance per node in the cluster. Two. PowerStore Manager needs at least two instances for a highly available configuration.

A Dell PowerStore 9000X came online after being initially configured seven days ago. The manager UI shows capacity but no forecasting metrics. Why are forecasting metrics not being displayed?. Forecasting was not turned on during configuration. The capacity forecasting license must be installed. There is not enough capacity in the appliance. Forecasting will not display until 16 days after initial configuration.

A storage administrator is trying to create a new hybrid pool on their Dell Unity XT 680. They want to add: • 18x 3.84 TB SSD drives • 72x 1200 GB 10K SAS drives • 64x 12 TB NLSAS drives However, this action is not being permitted by the Unity software. What is the reason for this?. 3.84 TB SSD are only supported in all flash pools. There are too many disks in the SAS tier. 12 TB NLSAS drives are only permitted in archive pools. The pool must be created with only a single drive type.

From which storage platforms does a migration import data to a Dell PowerStore cluster?. Dell EqualLogic PS series, Unity, Dell Compellent SC Series, and PowerVault ME. PowerMax, Dell EqualLogic PS series, Dell Compellent SC Series, and Unity. VNXe, Unity, Dell Compellent SC Series, and Dell EqualLogic PS series. Unity, VNX2, Dell EqualLogic PS series, and Dell Compellent SC Series.

A solutions architect must present two different Dell PowerStore options to a customer. Both options must contain 90 TB raw in the smallest drive configuration possible. A 3000T and a 9000T are the two models requested. The customer wants to know the minimum drive count necessary to perform a capacity upgrade. Which solution should be recommended. 6x 15 TB drives in the 3000T and 6x 15 TB drives in the 9000T, both requiring upgrades in six drive increments. 6x 15 TB drives in the 3000T and 12x 7 TB drives in the 9000T, both supporting single drive upgrades. 6x 15 TB drives in the 3000T and 6x 15 TB drives in the 9000T, both supporting single drive upgrades. 12x 7 TB drives in the 3000T and 6x 15 TB drives in the 9000T, both requiring upgrades in six drive increments.

A Dell Unity XT 480F system ships with two embedded modules, one for each SP. What does the embedded module provide?. Fiber Channel connectivity. Field service only. CNA connectivity. Management.

A Dell Unity XT hybrid flash array system is configured with FAST Cache to optimize data access for OLTP workloads. What level of data granularity is tracked and promoted to the secondary cache?. 8 KB. 256 KB. 64 KB. 128 KB.

A customer has two Dell S4148FON switches which are not connected to each other. The customer wants to use SMB to present NAS data directly from the array to their users. The solution must have resilience in case a switch outage occurs. Which solution should the technical architect recommend?. Dell PowerStore 1000X. Dell PowerVault ME4. Dell PowerStore 1000T. Dell Unity XT 480.

What is one key difference between deduplication on Dell PowerStore and Dell Unity?. Unity has no deduplication function. Unity data reduction cannot be disabled. Deduplication block size is smaller on PowerStore than on Unity. Deduplication block size is larger on PowerStore than on Unity.

A customer has two Dell Unity arrays, a Dell Unity 550F, and a Dell Unity XT 480. They are undergoing a network refresh, and would like to modernize to a 25 GbE network. The customer has asked the technical architect about adding 25 GbE network cards to the Unity systems. Both systems have free slots. Which option should the technical architect recommend?. All Unity and Unity XT systems support 25 GbE. The Unity XT 480 supports a 25 GbE card, but the Unity 550F does not support a 25 GbE card. The Unity 550F supports a 25 GbE card, but the Unity XT 480 does not support a 25 GbE card. 25 GbE is not supported on Unity or Unity XT systems.

Which path of the sizer tool for Dell Unity XT uses predefined configurations that are based on array model, capacity points, random workloads, RAID type, and drive type?. Application Oriented. Data Input. Quick Configuration. System Designer.

What is a benefit of using a performance assessment tool?. Retrieves workload metrics from all storage systems. Provides performance statistics in a structured postgres database. Retrieves the performance archives using the Unity Data Collection. Provides automated performance statistics in chart and table format.

A systems administrator has deployed a Dell Unity XT 380F with 90x 1.92 TB SSDs in a dynamic pool. How many drives are allocated as spare space?. 0. 4. 3. 2.

Which Unity load balancing method will optimize performance in a customer environment if there are a limited number of open FC switch ports?. Least I/O. Priority. Round Robin. Port to Core Affinity.

What occurs immediately before the write is acknowledged to the host in a Dell PowerStore 1000T?. The peer node is updated. Data is passed through the deduplication and compression logic. I/O is saved within the node DRAM memory. Information is stored on the nonvolatile media of the NVRAM drives.

A user is storing data on the quota tree on a Dell PowerStore system. What can an administrator use to limit the amount of storage that the user consumes?. User quota on the tree quota. A NAS server quota. A bandwidth throttle quota. A second tree quota.

How should Dell Unity XT storage pools be configured to minimize the chance of running out of space due to snapshot utilization?. Set high and low watermarks to remove old snapshots. Set retention to a particular date and time. Change the number of days in the local retention policy. Change the frequency period on the snapshot schedule.

A Dell PowerStore protection policy contains two snapshot rules and one replication rule. Which storage resources will run only the snapshot rules?. Virtual Machines and File Servers. Volumes and Volume Groups. Virtual Machines and File Systems. Volume Groups and File Systems.

A Dell PowerStore administrator has been asked to create a NAS file sharing environment for several clients. The clients will be running either Linux (NFS) or Windows (SMB) and must have access to the same data simultaneously. How can this be achieved using Dell PowerStore?. A. Configure two NAS servers, place all Linux data in one and all Windows data in the other. Configure a snapshot rule and protection policy and apply it to the file system. Configure multiprotocol access to required file system. Configure file data to be replicated for access by different client types.

A customer has implemented five new Dell PowerStore 1000T model arrays for remote office sites. The arrays are going to need more capacity than originally thought. What NVRAM considerations must be evaluated before adding the new capacity?. Use the DSA ordering system to determine if more NVRAM is supported for the PowerStore model. Another NVRAM is only needed if adding an expansion shelf. The 1000T only supports two NVRAM modules. Use the Dell PowerStore Manager UI to determine if more NVRAM is needed.

A technical architect is working with a customer to design a Dell Unity XT solution. The customer is concerned about enabling the data reduction storage service. What system condition should the architect recommend for enabling data reduction?. CPU utilization above 80%. Free capacity at or less than 50% free capacity. CPU utilization at or less than 50%. Free capacity above 80%.

Which describes the Dell Unity XT MetroSync replication topology?. A source block resource replicating synchronously from Site A to Site B and replicating synchronously from Site A to Site C. A source file resource replicating synchronously from Site A to Site B and replicating asynchronously from Site A to Site C. A source file resource replicating synchronously from Site A to Site B and replicating synchronously from Site A to Site C. A source block resource replicating synchronously from Site A to Site B and replicating asynchronously from Site A to Site C.

Which network option should be configured to provide the best iSCSI performance on a Dell Unity XT array?. iSCSI offload. Single VLAN for all traffic. Jumbo frames. Disable flow control.

What is the minimum RPO that can be configured on a Dell Unity XT block-asynchronous replication session?. 5 mnt. 60 mnt. 1 mnt. 20 mnt.

Which methods are available to migrate storage resources from one Dell PowerStore appliance to another within the same cluster?. Assisted Migration and Live Migrate. Migrate and Assisted Migration. Assisted Migration and Volume Motion. Volume Motion and Live Migrate.

An administrator wants to use NAS Server Mobility to move a NAS server from SPA to SPB on a Dell Unity system What consideration must they be aware of?. DNS configuration will be lost after the move. NAS Server Mobility is no longer supported following a software update. Any replication sessions must be in a paused state before starting the move. The system must be in service mode to complete the move.

A technical architect is helping a customer prepare for a data center maintenance window. All applications must failover to the disaster recovery site. The customer also wants to test their disaster recovery plan. What PowerStore Manager replication option should be used to address the customer's need, and from which site should the option be run?. Planned failover from target site. Planned failover from source site. Failover from target site. Failover from source site.

What is the maximum number of data drives that can be put in to a Dell PowerStore 1000T base enclosure?. 23. 21. 25. 24.

What is the maximum number of data drives that can be put in to a Dell PowerSto re 1000T base enclosure?. 23. 21. 25. 24.

What is the maximum number of SAS buses per SP for a Dell Unity XT 480F, without an additional SAS I/O module?. 4. 3. 1. 2.

Which describes cascade replication on a Dell Unity XT?. Synchronous replication of a file resource from Sites A to B, then B to C, then C to D. Asynchronous replication of a block resource from Sites A to B, then B to C, then C to D. Synchronous replication of a block resource from Sites A to B, then B to C, then C to D. Asynchronous replication of a file resource from Sites A to B, then B to C, then C to D.

How many expansion enclosures can be added to a Dell PowerStore 1000T that has 10 SCM drives in the base enclosure?. 0. 1. 3. 2.

A company has a Dell Unity XT 880 at its Boston site providing file storage for a business production application. The company has a second remote site 8 km (5 mi) away in Cambridge. A third site is in New York (342 km (213 mi) from the Boston site). How can the same production data be protected against system outage with a zero RPO and a maximum of 15 minutes RPO data recovery?. Synchronous replicate from Boston to Cambridge Asynchronous replicate from Boston to New York. Synchronous replicate from Boston to Cambridge Synchronous replicate from Boston to New York. Asynchronous replicate from Boston to Cambridge Asynchronous replicate from Cambridge to New York. Synchronous replicate from Boston to Cambridge Synchronous replicate from Cambridge to New York.

A technical architect is designing a Dell Unity storage solution. The customer has a monthly data access profile where block data is accessed infrequently. The data is accessed frequently for a few days during month-end reporting. Based on best practices, which solution should the technical architect recommend?. A single-tier solution using 10k drives. An All-Flash solution using FAST VP and FAST Cache. A hybrid solution using FAST VP and FAST Cache. A hybrid solution using data progression.