EMC DES-1D12 Specialist - Technology Architect Midrange Storage Solutions Exam Exam Practice Test

The maximum number of SAS buses per SP for a Dell Unity XT 480F without an additional SAS I/O module is 2. Each Dell Unity XT 480F has 2 Service Processors (SPs) and each SP has 2 SAS buses, for a total of 2 SAS buses per SP. SAS buses are used to connect the storage drives to the SPs and to the storage array. Each bus can support multiple drives and provide high-speed data transfer between the drives and the SPs.

In Dell Unity XT storage systems, a dynamic pool is built using drive partnership groups. A drive partnership group is a group of drives that are combined to create a pool. A drive partnership group can be made up of SAS, NL-SAS, or Flash drives. In this case, the customer has a single pool built from 24x 800 GB SAS Rash 3 drives and 24x 1 6 TB SAS Rash 3 drives, and 14x 400 SAS Flash 2 drives. All drives are SAS type, and it's only one partnership group.

The technical architect should recommend enabling data reduction storage service when the system has free capacity above 80%. Data reduction technologies such as compression and deduplication reduce the amount of storage needed by eliminating duplicates and compressing data. However, these technologies can consume additional resources, particularly CPU. Enabling data reduction on a system that is already running low on free capacity would create additional resource contention and negatively impact performance.

The maximum capacity of a file system on a Dell Unity XT 380 can be up to 256 TB. This high capacity is possible due to the advanced storage features such as data reduction, data tiering and use of high-density drives. The file system capacity can be increased by adding more drives, and by configuring the storage pool and LUNs in a way that maximizes storage utilization and performance. It's important to note that this may vary depending on the specific version and software of the Dell Unity XT 380.

In this scenario, the customer wants to test their disaster recovery plan and wants all applications to failover to the disaster recovery site. To accomplish this, the technical architect should use the planned failover option from the source site, the primary site. This will allow the customer to test their disaster recovery plan and ensure that all applications can be successfully failed over to the disaster recovery site. It's important to note that if the customer wants to failover to the disaster recovery site for maintenance and after that fail back to the primary site, the planned failover should be run from the target site.

These categories are divided in tabs: Overview, Capacity, and Performance.

Asynchronous replication can be used to replicate data over larger distances than synchronous replication. However, it cannot be used to replicate data between two UnityVSA systems within the same city. To replicate file data from a production Dell Unity 550F to a remote office in the same city with a UnityVSA, the technical architect should advise the customer to use synchronous replication.

Dell PowerStore allows you to create a NAS file sharing environment for several clients by configuring multiprotocol access to the required file system. This means that the same file system can be accessed by both Linux and Windows clients using either the NFS or SMB protocols. This can be achieved by creating a file system, and configuring it to allow access using both the NFS and SMB protocols. Once the file system is set up, you can assign permissions and share the file system with the appropriate clients. This way, the clients will be able to access the same data simultaneously, regardless of whether they are running Linux or Windows and which protocol they are using. It's not necessary to replicate data for access by different client types, it would be an extra step that would consume more resources and would be unnecessary

The assisted migration allows you to move data to a new storage pool with more capacity. This process can be done while the data is still online and accessible to hosts, and it allows you to add or replace drives, expand pools, and move data to a new array without any disruption.

Deduplication uses algorithms to analyze, perform pattern detection, and attempts to store only a single instance of data. In general deduplication can work at the block, bit-level, or file level. In PowerStore, deduplication works at the block level at 4 KB granularity.

This allows the customer to protect their file storage resources through asynchronous replication to other Dell Unity XT systems in different locations, providing a high level of data protection and disaster recovery capabilities. The asynchronous replication feature allows the customer to replicate data between systems in a way that does not affect performance, and it allows them to recover quickly from a disaster or outage.

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Access-based enumeration is the attribute that must be used at the share level to restrict the share content visibility of a Dell Unity file system based on the access rights. Access-based Enumeration (ABE) is a feature that allows you to hide files and folders from users who do not have the necessary permissions to access them. When ABE is enabled, users only see the files and folders that they have permission to access. This helps to prevent users from accidentally accessing data that they should not have access to, and it helps to maintain the security and integrity of the data on the file system.