FlashBlade Architect Flashcards
___ is for capacity optimized //S systems
S200
is for performance optimized systems
S500
Systems must have all the same ___ type
Blade
Blades can be upgraded from ___ to ___
S200; S500
Blades can have ___ to ___ DFMs in them
1;4
All blades must have the same and number of ___
DFMs
DFM’s can be upgraded from ___TB to ___TB DFMs
24;48
Capacity can be added by add of ___, add of ___, up size ___
DFMs, Blades, DFMS
Chassis have 2 ___ network modules
FIOM
Each FIOM has ___ usable ___Gbps ports and ___ reserved ports
4; 100; 4
FIOM ports can use ___Gbps break out cables
25
___ are ___ ___ ___for multi chassis Implementations
XFMs; External Fabric Models
Can be ___ to ___ Chassis in size
1; 5
Chassis are ___ RU tall
5
XFMs are ___ RU tall and ___ are required
1; 2
For MC, there are ___ ___Gbps ports per XFM for access (16 total)
8; 100
//E is for ___ ___ /___ ___ per TB workloads
Low performance; lowest cost
//E has 2 blade types
EC and EX
The 1st //E chassis is an ___ and all expansions are ___
EC and EX
EC blades have ___, ____, and ___
compute, authorities, and protocol endpoints
EX blades have ___ and ___ ___ only
Capacity and storage managers
The base config of an //E is ___ chassis
2
//E only expands with ___ populated chassis
fully
Resiliency has ___ and ____ groups (RGs)
compute and storage
Compute RGs are ___ from ___ - ___ blades
N+1 from 7 - 17
After the ___ blade is added, it moves to ___
18th; N+2
Storage RGs are N+2 when there is only ___ DFM per blade
1
Storage RGs move to N+4 when there are ___ or more DFMs per blade
2
A ___ Storage RG will be created when the ___ DFM is added
2nd; 36th
A FB with ___ or less blades can sustain a blade failure + ___ DFM
17; 1
An 18+ blade system can sustain ___ blade failures
2
//E uses the same ____ logic as ___
resiliency, //S
A ___ algorithm determines which authority is responsible for data
CRUSH
CRUSH hashes ____, ____, and ____
inode, offset, and length
There are ___ authorities on a FB system
128
Authorities are ___ distributed across all blades
randomly
Cross protocol is supported between ___ and ___ but ___ can not be accessed via other protocols
NFS and SMB; Object
//E only comes in __ capacity configurations
4
All storage in FlashBlade can be accessed with ___ IP
One
Customers shoudl use a ___ ___ ___ to access the FB
Single port channel
ECMP hashes the ___ ___, ____ ____, ___ ___, ___ ___
Source ip, destination ip, source port, and destination port
Replicaiton comes in ___ or ____ variety
file or object
The ___ hash determines which blade will handle the ___ session
ECMP; TCP
____ is the Pure Storage Solution with nvida for AI
AIRI
RapidFile Tool Kit speeds up ___ management operation, especially ____ commands
NFS; modifiying
File replicaiton is ___ to ___
FlashBlade to FlashBlade
Object Replicaiton can support ___ ___ target
AWS S3
