Question 61

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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

Question 62

You have been invited to meet with the Social Media and Marketing Department and gather requirements for a potential File System Project. They primarily use CIFS and are considering deploying a Hadoop cluster to analyze customer demographic data. The Senior Systems Engineer thinks they will need 2PB of usable capacity.
What would you do to gain an understanding of the customer’s environment to qualify and develop the opportunity?

Correct Answer:B

Question 63

At which level can retention periods be applied with Isilon SmartLock?

Correct Answer:D

Question 64

A customer has a 5 node Isilon cluster. The raw capacity of the cluster is 85% used. On average, the cluster has 4,000 users connected during office hours. The average CPU usage is 65%. The customer needs to delete some data to free up capacity. What should the customer do to minimize the effect of the deletion job?

Correct Answer:B

Question 65

An Isilon customer wants the ability to provide low latency I/O for their files due to a workflowinvolving small, random reads and writes. Which SSD strategy is most effective for this use case?

Correct Answer:A

Question 66

Which Isilon feature provides the ability to build a cluster using different node types and tiers to meet a customer's business objectives?

Correct Answer:A
Smartpools is the licensed feature that enables using different node types.

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