#5: Storage Fundamentals (Part 2)

Question 1

What is storage provisioning?

Answer 1

process of assigning storage capacity to servers, computers, virtual machines or any other computing device

Question 2

Scaling

Answer 2

process of adding to existing hardware to support growth

Question 3

Scale up

Answer 3

array scales with capacity only, and is limited to 2 storage processors
- scaling w/ drives only

Question 4

Scale out

Answer 4

array scales with compute and capacity

- scaling w/ drives and processors

Question 5

Components of unified dual

Answer 5

dual-active controllers, redundant front-end paths, unified data services for all storage objects