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A customer has a requirement for a new solution to handle their growing storage requirements. The solution should have the ability 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 wants the solution to offer 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?
A potential customer has 540TB Raw capacity of NetApp running in ONTAP 7-Mode. They are willing to let you gather some workload data. Their authentication sources are LDAP and Active Directory. Their users are primarily Windows Clients. They are very interested in Automated Tiering and Large Scale Archives. They are not certain about the workflows from the Marketing Department. The Content Team will only say they need to acquire 300 TB within 90 days. They do not know the average file size or the number of aggregates they are managing.
Which tool(s) would you use next to complete your sizing?
A customer currently has 10 HPC nodes. They plan to purchase a 5-node Isilon X400 cluster for an HPC application running on Linux. They will persistent mount the Isilon cluster through NFSv3.
Which recommended configuration addresses the customer's requirements for high availability and throughput?
You have scheduled a meeting with a prospective customer in the Life Sciences vertical market. Which Isilon features should be presented to them?
A company wants to have their new Gen 6 Isilon cluster benchmarked for a UNIX environment. What commonly available open source tool is typically used to test an Isilon cluster’s performance for this environment?
Which SmartConnect policies are used for workloads that have short lived connections such as HTTP and FTP?
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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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Currently, the workflows are being limited by the network access to the Isilon cluster.
What would result in the fastest possible network throughput?
A healthcare services provider is implementing an X-Series cluster. Currently they have approximately 200 customers and they are growing at 30% per year. They have 200 TB of storage utilized. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations require they keep all patient data for seven (7) years. They would like to keep all genomic sequencing data stored with N+3 protection, not to exceed 75% utilization.
What is the minimum initial configuration you would recommend?
When creating a FilePool policy via the OneFS WebUI, what is the maximum allowed number of condition
blocks?
While validating the value (VTV) with a large educational customer, they have decided they would like to add a Disaster Recovery (DR) site to their existing Isilon environment. The existing cluster contains six X-Series nodes. They plan to have all workflows replicated to the DR site and both clusters will have identical shares, exports, and user authentication. The customer would like to test DR failover every six months by running their production environment from the DR site.
What would you recommend for the DR solution?
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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?
Your customer is a major metropolitan newspaper. Your previous discussion centered on their storage requirements, and you asked them some of the Top Ten questions.
They responded: "Well, it's not the prettiest or most high-tech solution...we use Secure FTP (SFTP) to upload the stories and images and put them in a workflow that formats them for printing in the newspaper." "What really worries us is the fact that our Storage Array from your competitor is going out of maintenance in 120 days, and they are dropping support for Secure FTP. This isn't even considered in our D/R Plan. Do you have a better solution with Isilon?"
Which top 10 questions led to this information?
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?
Using Isilon SnapshotIQ, how many snapshots can be created at the directory level?
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A large hospital chain has approached you to redesign their storage infrastructure. The head of IT believes their requirement is for 60 TB of RAW capacity. The following are the notes from meetings with the department heads.
Which is the minimum cluster configuration that meets the customer's requirements?
Which Isilon SmartLock version uses an NTP server to keep track of the set retention periods placed on a directory?
Your customer purchased an Isilon cluster with eight X400 nodes for Home Directories. Your follow-up discussions have uncovered an opportunity to expand the cluster to support the Legal Department. As you prepare to complete the Workflow Profile Document, you meet with the customer to discuss data protection.
Which key areas should you address?
A customer plans to deploy N+2:1 protection on a 5-node Isilon cluster. How much capacity will be used to store a 320 KiB file?
Which OneFS roles should be assigned to an Active Directory group for login privileges equivalent to the
‘admin’ local account?
You have received a critical task that requires immediate analysis of system performance. Captured data will later be processed by MiTrend, but a current assessment is not available.
Which utility will quickly provide IOPS associated with reads and writes, CPU utilization, and I/O scheduler wait time?
In an Isilon cluster, what is the largest number of nodes that a single file can be striped across?
An Isilon cluster component has the following characteristics:
Which cluster component is described?
If a customer experiences a node failure while at 90% capacity, what is the fastest way of replacing the node in an Isilon cluster?
There is a concern that there are not enough physical switch ports available for the Isilon cluster in a new implementation with SMB and ICAP requirements. What course of action should be taken?
You set up a meeting to gather information on a new project with the IT manager and plan to use a workflow profile assessment (WPA) to document the requirements.
Why is it recommended to talk to as many stakeholders as possible?
What is the recommended namespace path for the access zone on a new Isilon cluster with SyncIQ license?
A customer plans to deploy N+2d:1n protection on a 5-node Isilon cluster. How much capacity will be used to store a 320 KiB file?
You are asked to size a cluster for a file sharing environment. nfsstat indicates that 75% of the requests are namespace operations (e.g., GETADDR, SETADDR). There will be 8,000 active Linux users, connecting over NFS.
Which cluster configuration would you recommend?
What is the minimum size and the maximum size, respectively, of a single pre-Gen 6 node pool?
An architect is designing a solution for a new customer. The customer is going to use the cluster to store a
large number of files that will be accessed by many users.
What IO optimization should be used and what kind of prefetching will take place?
An Isilon customer is experiencing less than expected performance and poor space utilization with their cluster. They are using the X400 nodes with an N+2d:1n protection policy to host web server log data. Upon further analysis, the customer discovers that the web servers write log files 64KiB in size. The log files are then accessed by an analytics application for reporting purposes. What should be done to increase the write performance of the cluster?
When an Isilon SyncIQ replication job completes, how many SnapshotIQ policies can be created on a target cluster directory?
What is a characteristic of predefined sets of privileges of OneFS built-in administrator roles?
TESTED 07 May 2024
