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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.
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Before making any changes, the customer would like a graphical presentation of their existing array performance to present to management.
What is the best tool to gather this information?
Correct Answer:A
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?
Correct Answer:A
A customer is considering moving their NAS data over to Isilon systems. They want to know what limitations Isilon has regarding snapshot on the directory level.
What explanation can be provided to the customer?
Correct Answer:D
A system administrator has identified a problem on the cluster and has opened a service request on support.emc.com. They initiate isi_gather_info but it is taking a long time to complete.
What can they do to speed up the completion of isi_gather_info for the next run?
Correct Answer:C
What is the maximum number of file pool policies supported in an Isilon cluster?
Correct Answer:C