Free Dell PowerScale Design D-PSC-DS-01 Exam Questions

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?

Which protocols are supported by Isilon OneFS for file access?

In an Isilon environment, how is InsightIQ installed?

An Isilon customer has two 5-node clusters; one for production and one for disaster recovery (DR). The customer's workflows are replicated to the DR cluster through SyncIQ on individual schedules. They shut down their production cluster for a scheduled DR test, failed over to the DR cluster, and continue their DR testing.

Assume both clusters have identical shares, exports, and user authentication. Additionally, assume the client applications have been stopped and the DNS re-pointed. Which SyncIQ Policy method should be used to continue production operations?

What key considerations should be kept in mind when designing a 300TB solution?

You meet a customer for the first time. They explain that their current environment for NAS does not meet their needs. You want to make sure that Isilon is a good fit for their needs.

What would be a good prequalifying question to ask?

Your customer has an Isilon cluster with five X400 nodes and four 72NL nodes. A SmartPools policy moves data to the NL nodes after 60 days of inactivity. The customer wants to expand the archive tier by at least 150 TB and would like to manage a single archive pool.

Which nodes should be added to the cluster?

An Isilon has 6 X410 nodes and 4 NL410 nodes. How many job engine directors does the cluster have?

You are involved with a Proof of Concept where the performance is not what you expect. What can you use to collect process stack information and a listing of process waiting on I/O?

Which types of reports are available from InsightIQ?