Recommend the Most Appropriate Monitoring Capabilities for the Situation ECS-DESIGN Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–15

1. 11application · medium

   A media company runs a Dell ECS cluster supporting a mix of active archive and production workloads. The operations team wants to monitor the cluster's overall health and receive immediate notifications for any node failures or capacity issues. They already use a centralized monitoring platform for their other infrastructure. Which approach should they take?

   • ADeploy a separate monitoring agent on each ECS node to collect metrics and send email alerts.
   • BUse the ECS Management UI to view health and capacity dashboards, and rely on manual checks.
   • CConfigure ECS SNMP traps to send alerts to the existing centralized monitoring platform.
   • DEnable ECS Cloud Tiering to replicate monitoring data to a public cloud for analysis.
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2. 12foundation · medium

   To proactively identify potential disk failures, which alerting configuration is most effective?

   • AConfigure alerts for capacity utilization above 80%
   • BConfigure alerts for hardware health events
   • CConfigure alerts for low IOPS
   • DConfigure alerts for high latency
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4. 13application · medium

   A large enterprise runs a multi-vendor data center and uses VMware vCenter for virtual machine management. They want to include Dell ECS storage health and performance metrics in their existing vCenter dashboards. What should they do?

   • AUse the ECS REST API to pull metrics into a custom dashboard that integrates with vCenter.
   • BInstall the ECS plugin directly into vCenter to display storage metrics.
   • CExport ECS metrics to a CSV file and import them into vCenter manually.
   • DConfigure vCenter to monitor ECS via the S3 API.
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5. 14application · medium

   An administrator notices that the ECS cluster's average latency has increased from 5 ms to 50 ms over the past hour, while IOPS have remained steady. CPU utilization on storage nodes is low, but network utilization is high. What is the most likely cause of the increased latency?

   • AA failing disk drive
   • BInsufficient storage capacity
   • CCPU saturation on the storage nodes
   • DNetwork congestion or a network bottleneck
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6. 15application · medium

   A government agency uses Dell ECS for records retention. They must be notified within 30 minutes if any node in the cluster becomes unavailable. They have a SolarWinds monitoring platform. What should they configure?

   • AA daily email report of node status.
   • BSNMP traps from ECS to SolarWinds for node down events.
   • CA custom script that checks node status hourly.
   • DManual monitoring via the Management UI.
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