Describe the SmartPools Features POWERSCALE-DEPLOY Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–15

1. 11application · medium

   A company's PowerScale cluster is running out of space on its expensive SSD tier, while the HDD tier has ample free capacity. The administrator wants to automatically move infrequently accessed files to the HDD tier to free up SSD space. What should the administrator do?

   • ACreate a snapshot of the SSD tier and delete the original files
   • BManually move files to the HDD tier using the mv command
   • CCreate a file pool policy that matches files by last access time older than a threshold and sets the storage tier to the HDD tier
   • DEnable cloud tiering to move all files to the cloud
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2. 12application · medium

   A company wants to archive old project files to a public cloud storage service to reduce on-premises capacity costs. The files are rarely accessed but must remain available for occasional retrieval. The PowerScale cluster has SmartPools enabled. What should the administrator configure to achieve this?

   • AA replication policy that copies the files to a cloud-based PowerScale cluster
   • BA file pool policy that moves files older than a specified age to a cloud storage pool
   • CA snapshot schedule that stores snapshots in the cloud
   • DA manual script that uploads files to the cloud using S3 API
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4. 13application · medium

   A company uses SmartPools to tier data between SSD and HDD tiers. The administrator is concerned about the impact of file pool policies on existing snapshots. What should the administrator know about how SmartPools interacts with snapshots?

   • ASnapshots are not supported on clusters with SmartPools enabled
   • BSnapshots must be recreated after a file pool policy moves files
   • CSnapshots are automatically deleted when a file is moved to a different tier
   • DMoving a file to another tier does not break existing snapshots; snapshots continue to reference the file data
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5. 14expert · hard

   A high-performance computing (HPC) cluster uses PowerScale with multiple storage pools. The HPC application requires that its data files be stored on the same node pool as the compute nodes to minimize network latency. The administrator wants to use SmartPools to ensure this data locality. What is the most effective way to achieve this?

   • AConfigure the HPC application to access files over the network instead of locally
   • BUse manual storage pool management to assign the HPC files to the local node pool
   • CEnable cloud tiering to store the HPC files on a local cloud instance
   • DCreate a file pool policy that places the HPC files on the specific storage pool that is local to the compute nodes
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6. 15foundation · easy

   Which file attribute can SmartPools use to classify data?

   • AFile checksum
   • BFile name
   • CFile owner's email address
   • DFile encryption status
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