A customer is implementing a new backup strategy for their two PowerScale clusters. The clusters are in a DR configuration. The customer uses SyncIQ to replicate data from the primary cluster to the DR cluster.
They use CloudPools to tier archival data to a public cloud provider from both clusters. The public cloud provider guarantees a backup of all data that is stored in their cloud.
Which NDMP backup option should be applied to their primary cluster to avoid backing up data that is tiered to their cloud provider?
Response:

• A. ShallowCopy
• B. DeepCopy
• C. NDMP Redirector
• D. ComboCopy

We have been engaged by a research hospital to help upgrade their Isilon installation. They currently have 12 previous generation Isilon nodes with 200TB of capacity and run on a 1Gbps network. They currently have 6 IIlumina Hi-Seq Sequencers and an HPC cluster to process data.
They would like to expand Isilon to 2PB of active data and 1PB of archive dat a. They use a third party data and metadata management service (IRODs) to stage data for analysis. The Isilon cluster is mainly used for analysis work with the HPC cluster. The customer has a limited budget.
What would be the best price/performance solution for their active data?
Response:

• A. 12 X-Series nodes with no SSD drives and 24GB of RAM
• B. 14 NL-Series nodes with 24GB of RAM
• C. 17 X-Series nodes with SSD drives and 48GB of RAM
• D. 14 X-Series nodes with no SSD drives and 96GB of RAM

A customer has 1,000 at 2 KB files, 5,000 at 4 KB files, and 4,000 at 7 KB files. They want to know the total amount of space on disk with a requested protection level of N+2d:1n. How much on-disk space will be consumed for the data and protection overhead, excluding metadata?
Response:

• A. ~156 MB
• B. ~164 MB
• C. ~146 MB
• D. ~234 MB

Your customer manages a print media environment, consisting of three Isilon clusters, which are out of support. The customer would like to have access to new software releases and feature sets. You have been asked to perform a full discovery of the customer's environment.
The customer's current Isilon clusters are as follows:
"Cust" (12 x 12000X) serves as upload media storage for different tenants.
"Working" (8 x 12000X + 6 x X200) serves as a working zone for extraction to RAW and printing media from it.
"Archive" (16 x 72NL + Accelerator nodes) is used to store printed content for six months.
The customer operates in a Windows environment using SMB 2.0, two DNS servers per AD forest, three forest domains which are servicing three different environments. All servers are operating on a 1Gb network, three VLANs segregating the DEV/QA/PROD environments. Currently, there is no monitoring in place for performance measurement or optimization.
The requirements for this solution include:
- Better ROI and TCO
- Maintain same performance with possible improvements
- Renew HW/SW and get inclusive support
- Limit migrations
- Reduce space, power, cooling consumption
- Get new feature sets
- If migration required, use Parallel copy (multiple nodes, multiple threads multiple connections)
- Segregate tenant shares from other tenants
- Expand up to 1PB of total storage
Which licenses need to be defined for the solution to perform optimally?
Response:

• A. SyncIQ, InsightIQ, SmartPools, Platform API
• B. HDFS, SmartQuotas, SnapshotIQ, InsightIQ
• C. InsightIQ, SmartPools, SyncIQ, SmartConnect Advanced
• D. SmartPools, SnapshotIQ, SyncIQ, SmartLock

A potential customer uses a solution from an EMC competitor for NFS storage in their main data center. The existing arrays are five years old, and the customer would like to consolidate them into a single new system.
The entire workload is generated by eight Linux hosts connected to the arrays that process video files. The customer informs you they are not able to collect performance information from the existing arrays.
Which tools can capture the workload requirements?
Response:

• A. MiTrends and netmon
• B. netstat and esxtop
• C. Wireshark and sysstat
• D. iostat and nfsstat