Describe OneFS Caching Levels and Use Cases POWERSCALE-DEPLOY Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–8

1. 6application · medium

   A video surveillance company stores continuous camera footage on a PowerScale cluster. The footage is written sequentially and rarely read after being stored. The administrator wants to ensure that the write path does not consume excessive cache resources that could be used for other workloads. Which caching level should be minimized or disabled for this workload?

   • AWrite-back cache
   • BL1 cache
   • CL2 cache
   • DL3 cache
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2. 7application · medium

   A company runs a PowerScale cluster for a high-performance computing (HPC) workload that performs large sequential reads on scientific datasets. The administrator wants to maximize L3 cache performance. Which configuration change is most likely to achieve this?

   • AIncrease the L2 cache size
   • BIncrease the L1 cache size
   • CIncrease the write-back cache size
   • DIncrease the L3 cache size
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3. 8foundation · easy

   Which OneFS caching level is specifically designed to accelerate metadata operations, such as directory lookups and file attribute retrieval?

   • AL1 cache
   • BL4 cache
   • CL2 cache
   • DL3 cache
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