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

A customer is looking for a new storage solution to handle their growing storage requirements. The system should be able to cover storage needs for the next three years. The environment consists of 100 TBs of file system data spread across five file systems. On average, the file systems grow 1 TB a month. In addition, they have a large VMware cluster supporting 200 VMs and a highly transactional database. The customer is looking for a solution that would provide good performance, scalability, manageability, and be cost-effective. The sales team is looking to you to recommend a solution. Which recommendation will meet the customer's requirements?

Which tool is used to perform a cluster-wide kernel configuration change on an Isilon Gen 6 cluster?

How does Isilon SnapshotIQ use storage for snapshots?

A customer is making a decision between Isilon and a competitor's offering. They currently have 100TB of usable capacity and are forecasting 100% growth per year for the next three years, which will require them to lease additional space in their co-located data center. The CFO finds ROI and TCO to be important decision criteria. Which statement best emphasizes the value of Isilon for this customer?

A customer is considering XtremIO storage for their current Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment. The customer wants information on the benefits of an XtremIO solution. What are the benefits of an XtremIO solution for this environment?

Refer to the exhibit. During a requirements gathering meeting, the customer identified a desire to use a codec for editing content that will take up the least amount of space on their Isilon cluster. The content is 1920x1080 HD. Based on the provided list of codecs, which codec would minimize the storage requirement?

An administrator recently installed InsightIQ to gather cluster statistics, and wants to look at file system usage (such as the number of files in a directory). However, currently no file system statistics are displayed in InsightIQ after 24 hours. Use of the cluster is moderate, and occurs 24 hours per day. What job for InsightIQ should the administrator modify to successfully report these statistics?

Which block size does Isilon SyncIQ use to transfer data?

When conducting high-level interviews with stakeholders of a project, what are the key questions that should be asked?

A telecommunications company has a substantial amount of data. This data is being created by network elements within their environment. The company wants to change the way the network elements Call Detail Records (CDR) are stored and analyzed. The existing infrastructure consolidates all of the CDRs into a table structure, and then ingests them into a large database. Once ingested, a query engine accesses the database and performs analysis on these files. The system is functional; however, since the amount of CDRs generated will increase exponentially over the next year, the company is open to alternatives for storing and analyzing these records. In evaluating alternatives, the key requirements are to reduce cost, the amount of storage, and the amount of time to analyze the data. The customer would like to use Hadoop to analyze the CDRs. After you have conducted an assessment of the workflow, you have recommended an Isilon Cluster to work within the Hadoop environment. Which protocols would be the best fit when using Isilon for this customer's Hadoop workflow?

A customer requires a backup to tape of their Isilon cluster. They want advice on whether to implement a two-way NDMP solution or a three-way solution. The front-end network must be used to stream data to the backup solution. Which cost-effective solution will meet their needs?

-- Exhibit -- 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 Illumina 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 data. 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?

A customer has two data centers (Site A and Site B) and in each data center there is an Isilon cluster. They are replicating data between the sites using SyncIQ. You have been reviewing their disaster recovery plan and found the following: The policies specify that SyncIQ runs a replication job every four hours and that the job finishes within one hour. Three additional hours will be needed to get servers and the network redirected to work from Site B. What is the Recovery Point Objective in this plan?

What replication option is NOT supported by SyncIQ?

On an Isilon cluster, how much space should be reserved for snapshots by default?

What determines how a user is directed to the correct secure multi-tenancy access zones?

A customer has an existing Oracle environment they are considering moving over to XtremIO from VMAX for improved performance. The customer wants to know the expected deduplication and compression savings they can achieve with XtremIO. Which tool is appropriate for conducting this assessment?

You have had several meetings with an existing EMC VMAX customer. They have agreed that they would like to review an initial Isilon Solution for unstructured data used by the Product Development Team. All production is managed through a Global Enterprise Resource Planning system based in Germany. They require 600TiB of usable capacity. The File System must be accessible from Windows and Linux High-End Workstations. The files are generally not accessed after 120 days, and they would like automated tiering. Which questions about architectural integration will impact the solution design?

Which service daemon do FTP and FTPS use to transfer files to and from the cluster?

In an NFSv3 only environment, what is the recommended limit for active NFSv3 connections, per Isilon node?