Exam 5: XtremIO Solutions and Design Specialist Exam for Technology Architects

What is an accurate statement when configuring an Isilon Gen 6 cluster with Compliance SmartLock?

How are clients, L1 cache, L2 cache, and disks interconnected?

When designing Isilon solutions, which issue should you pay special attention to?

Your customer has an Isilon 4-node X400 cluster used for home directory use, and has since updated to OneFS 7.0. The HR and Legal departments have been very strict about using only dedicated file servers that are part of a single, isolated, untrusted Active Directory domain. Their filer has been out of maintenance, and fears are being raised that, due to the age, it may fail at some point. What could the IT department do, to allow the HR and Legal groups to provide file share services, with minimal impact to their other application permissions?

Refer to Exhibit below: What is represented by the information shown in the exhibit?

A potential customer requires 4 PB of usable capacity to store media files. The workloads are a combination of streaming video delivery and long term archive of video assets. There is very little space available in the customer's datacenter, so physical density is very important. The customer is concerned about performance impact and potential data loss when using 3 TB or larger drives. What Isilon capabilities can address the customer's concerns?

An Isilon cluster component has the following characteristics: Spans 3 - 40 nodes Logical grouping of drives Automatically assigned Intelligently distributes disks to manage performance Which cluster component is described?

There is a need to carry out a tech refresh of an Isilon cluster. Old nodes must be removed because of space constrains in the data center. What methodology is least disruptive and will retain the file system structure, configuration, data, and DNS information?

You are designing an XtremIO solution for a potential customer. If the server and storage information is available, which information should be documented regarding the customer's capacity expectations?

Your customer is moving from a Restaurant/Bar business model to a Restaurant/Casino business model. You are helping architect the upgrade of a current 4-node X200 48 TB Isilon cluster, with 50% utilized for their video surveillance operations. They want to upgrade from 15 FPS (NTSC) in H.264 codec, with a 15 days retention policy to 30 FPS (NTSC) in H.264 codec with a 30 days retention policy. Which storage capacity would be the best suited to meet the required changes and utilize 65-75% capacity?

A customer experiences a system failure on an Isilon storage node.However, the disk drives in the node are not affected. What is the preferred method for restoring cluster integrity?

You have been tasked with designing a solution for a company that wants to logically separate access to their Isilon storage by department. Each of their major internal departments currently uses different Active Directory authentication providers. In addition, they want to provide Isilon storage access to these departments while maintaining their authentication separation. Which feature will provide this functionality?

A customer is considering using the CloudPools feature to send archive data to their on premises object storage appliance. The customer needs to know how many objects will be created by the Isilon when it tiers files using CloudPools. If the customer has 20 1MB files, 2 10MB files and 4 3MB files, how many objects will CloudPools version 1.0 create?

You are sizing an Isilon cluster for a new customer. Analyzing their workflow you determine that they have a large block random read workload. What is the most important factor to consider when sizing this solution?

You are called into an opportunity, you would like to get more information on the data skew of the filer. The customer has a supported filer. What assessment tool would you use to generate this information?

Refer to the exhibit. You want to add redundancy to your network configuration, rather than performance. You have configured all interfaces into the default SmartConnect zone. How should you configure the switches and Isilon networking to provide your desired network redundancy?

In your second meeting with the customer you ask the following questions about their current unified SAN and NAS platform. "Are you using an application to map users from NFS Exports to SMB shares? Is each site a separate LDAP or AD Domain?" What functionality are your trying to understand in their environment and what is the comparable feature in Isilon OneFS?

Your customer is moving from a Restaurant/Bar business model to a Restaurant/Casino business model. You are helping architect the upgrade of a current 4-node X200 48 TB Isilon cluster, with 50% utilized for their video surveillance operations. They want to upgrade from 15 FPS (NTSC) in H.264 codec, with a 15 days retention policy to 30 FPS (NTSC) in H.264 codec, with a 30 days retention policy. How many nodes of the same type will you need to add in order to meet the required changes and not exceed 70% raw capacity?

Three jobs of different exclusion sets with a priority level of 5 are concurrently running on a cluster. A new job with a priority of 4 needs to be run. What does the Job Engine do?

A customer has two XtremIO clusters running 3.x software release. The customer just purchased a new XtremIO array that will be installed with the latest 4.x software release. What is the minimum number of XtremIO Management Server(s) that will be required to manage all clusters?