Explain Storage Pools, Policies, Neighborhoods, Global Namespace, Spillover, and VHS D-PSC-DY-23 POWERSCALE-DEPLOY Practice Questions (Page 4)

Questions 16–20

1. 16application · medium

   A media company is deploying a PowerScale cluster for two workloads: high-throughput video editing and low-latency metadata indexing. The cluster has 12 nodes, each with 8 drives. The administrator wants to ensure that video data is placed on nodes with high-capacity drives, while metadata is placed on nodes with high-performance SSDs. Which configuration should the administrator use?

   • AConfigure two access policies, one for each workload, to route data to different nodes.
   • BCreate a single storage pool and rely on SmartPools to automatically tier data between HDD and SSD nodes based on access frequency.
   • CCreate two storage pools, one for the video workload and one for the metadata workload, and assign the appropriate nodes to each pool.
   • DUse a single storage pool and set a protection policy to replicate video data on SSD nodes and metadata on HDD nodes.
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2. 17expert · hard

   A company has a PowerScale cluster with three storage pools: Pool1 (SSD), Pool2 (HDD), and Pool3 (Archive HDD). They have a file pool policy that places all new files in Pool1. Pool1 is now full. The administrator wants to ensure that new files are placed in Pool2, not Pool3, when Pool1 is full. What should the administrator do?

   • AManually move files from Pool1 to Pool2 to free space.
   • BCreate a second file pool policy that matches all files and assigns them to Pool2.
   • CSet Pool3 to read-only to prevent writes.
   • DConfigure the file pool policy to spillover to Pool2 only.
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4. 18foundation · easy

   What is the primary purpose of a storage pool in a Dell PowerScale cluster?

   • ATo provide a single logical volume that spans all nodes in the cluster regardless of drive type
   • BTo replicate data between two separate PowerScale clusters for disaster recovery
   • CTo group nodes and drives that share similar characteristics for data placement decisions
   • DTo isolate different departments' data from each other for security purposes
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5. 19foundation · easy

   How does the global namespace benefit administrators in a PowerScale environment?

   • AIt automatically replicates data to a secondary cluster for disaster recovery
   • BIt provides a separate security boundary for each node
   • CIt allows each node to have its own independent file system
   • DIt eliminates the need to manage multiple file system mounts for different nodes
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6. 20foundation · easy

   When does spillover occur in a PowerScale cluster?

   • AWhen a file is accessed frequently and is moved to a faster storage tier
   • BWhen a client requests data that is not in cache, so it is fetched from disk
   • CWhen a storage pool has insufficient space to hold new data, so data is placed in another pool
   • DWhen a node fails and its data is automatically rebuilt on other nodes
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