EMC DES-1415 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

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Your customer has three different clusters. File systems on two of the clusters are at 90% full, and the largest cluster is 10% full. Active data resides on the largest cluster. The customer has five different node types totaling 2PB and 54 nodes.
Nodes from left to right are as shown:
1. X200
2. 12000X
3. 36000X
4. NL108
5. 108NL
They have a Smartpool license and believe that tiering data would help free up needed space. After talking with the customer and explaining the use of SmartPools, how would you recommend optimizing utilization across all of the nodes that the customer owns?
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A customer has an SMB file directory with 375 TB of data on the primary cluster with a protection level of N+3:1. They want to replicate this directory to the secondary cluster. They are interested in the possibility of setting protection levels on the target cluster.
Which target directory protection level information can be provided?
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What key considerations should be kept in mind when designing a 300TB solution?
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Which OneFS roles should be assigned to a new local account for login privileges equivalent to 'root' local account?
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A customer wants to perform complete failover and failback testing on their production SyncIQ policies. What are the first two recommended steps to ensure a successful test?
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You meet with the IT Director of a large single site campus. The IT department has recently taken over Physical Security from the facilities department and plans a complete overhaul of the surveillance solution.
They are looking to you as a storage architecture expert to provide the correct amount of storage needed. The IT Director asks you what items they need to provide in order to size this solution.
What data do you require from the customer?
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A customer has a cluster consisting of six H700 nodes (in one full chassis and one half populated chassis) and four A2000 nodes (in one full chassis). The customer wants to expand their A2000 nodes.
What is the minimum number of A2000 nodes and chassis that the customer can add to the cluster?
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Where does Endurant Cache stage its write cache?
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A customer has an SMB file directory with 375 TB of data on the primary cluster with a protection level of N+ 3:1. They want to replicate this directory to the secondary cluster. The customer would like information about the possibility of setting protection levels on the target cluster.
What information can be provided to the customer about the protection level for the target directory?
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Your customer has observed a degradation in response time while browsing for media files within the Production Media folder of the Isilon cluster. That directory now contains over five million files. It was confirmed that there are no network or edit station related causes.
What changes to the Isilon cluster will best accelerate the browsing performance?
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A customer has issued a storage RFP for a large unstructured data repository, some VMware, and one application that only works with block storage. A competitor is challenging Isilon as a single storage solution. How should this objection be addressed?
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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?
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