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Question 1

You meet a customer for the first time. They explain that their current environment for NAS does not meet theirneeds. You want to make sure that Isilon is a good fit for their needs.
What would be a good prequalifyingquestionto ask?

A. How many users are in your Directory Services?
B. Where will the data center be installed?
C. Are you currently using a UPS for your main power source?
D. How many concurrent clients are accessing your NAS?

Question 2

Refer to the exhibit. You are analyzing a customer's existing Isilon environment using InsightIQ in order toexpand the cluster. When examining the protocol data, you see the output as shown.
What does the data tell you about the workload?

A. It is meta data intensive
B. It is mostly sequential reads
C. It uses large read requests
D. It contains mostly random writes

Question 3

On Isilon node, where is caching for disk blocks staged?

A. CPU
B. L1
C. L2
D. RAID

Question 4

Your customer manages a print media environment, consisting of three Isilon clusters, which are out ofsupport. The customer would like to have access to new software releases and feature the customer'senvironment.sets. You have been asked to perform a full discovery of 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 forestdomains which are servicing three different environments. All servers are operating on a 1Gb network, threeVLANs segregating the DEV/QA/PROD environments. Currently, there is no monitoring in place forperformance 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
What would you recommend be done to consolidate the three clusters into one?
* Leave the clusters as is

A. * Consolidate the remaining two clusters using SyncIQ * Build a new cluster for consolidation
B. * Use SnapshotIQ to migrate the existing data onto the new consolidated cluster * Spoof DNS to point to thenew cluster * Expand the largest and most I/O intensive cluster using SmartFail
C. * Consolidate the remaining two clusters using Multithreaded version of RoboCopy * Modify A-Record andpropagate to all DNS servers to point to the new cluster
D. * Upgrade drive sizes to meet the customer requirements * Expand the largest and most I/O intensive cluster using SmartFail

Question 5

A customer is looking for a NAS solution to support their read-intensive application. This solution must meetthe following requirements: * 1000 users * Aggregate bandwidth of 5 GB/s * 500 TB of user data * Typical latency of 5 ms.
The files are distributed evenly across 10 directories. Which cluster configuration would best meet theserequirements?

A. Twenty-five X200 (30 TB) nodes with 800 GB SSD
B. Eight X400 (96 TB) nodes with 1.6 TB SSD
C. Eight NL400 (96 TB) nodes with 1.6 TB SSD
D. Seven X400 (108 TB) nodes with no SSD

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