FlashBlade Architect

Question 1

___ is for capacity optimized //S systems

Answer 1

S200

Question 2

is for performance optimized systems

Answer 2

S500

Question 3

Systems must have all the same ___ type

Answer 3

Blade

Question 4

Blades can be upgraded from ___ to ___

Answer 4

S200; S500

Question 5

Blades can have ___ to ___ DFMs in them

Answer 5

1;4

Question 6

All blades must have the same and number of ___

Answer 6

DFMs

Question 7

DFM’s can be upgraded from ___TB to ___TB DFMs

Answer 7

24;48

Question 8

Capacity can be added by add of ___, add of ___, up size ___

Answer 8

DFMs, Blades, DFMS

Question 9

Chassis have 2 ___ network modules

Answer 9

FIOM

Question 10

Each FIOM has ___ usable ___Gbps ports and ___ reserved ports

Answer 10

4; 100; 4

Question 11

FIOM ports can use ___Gbps break out cables

Answer 11

25

Question 12

___ are ___ ___ ___for multi chassis Implementations

Answer 12

XFMs; External Fabric Models

Question 13

Can be ___ to ___ Chassis in size

Answer 13

1; 5

Question 14

Chassis are ___ RU tall

Answer 14

5

Question 15

XFMs are ___ RU tall and ___ are required

Answer 15

1; 2

Question 16

For MC, there are ___ ___Gbps ports per XFM for access (16 total)

Answer 16

8; 100

Question 17

//E is for ___ ___ /___ ___ per TB workloads

Answer 17

Low performance; lowest cost

Question 18

//E has 2 blade types

Answer 18

EC and EX

Question 19

The 1st //E chassis is an ___ and all expansions are ___

Answer 19

EC and EX

Question 20

EC blades have ___, ____, and ___

Answer 20

compute, authorities, and protocol endpoints

Question 21

EX blades have ___ and ___ ___ only

Answer 21

Capacity and storage managers

Question 22

The base config of an //E is ___ chassis

Answer 22

2

Question 23

//E only expands with ___ populated chassis

Answer 23

fully

Question 24

Resiliency has ___ and ____ groups (RGs)

Answer 24

compute and storage

Question 25

Compute RGs are ___ from ___ - ___ blades

Answer 25

N+1 from 7 - 17

Question 26

After the ___ blade is added, it moves to ___

Answer 26

18th; N+2

Question 27

Storage RGs are N+2 when there is only ___ DFM per blade

Answer 27

1

Question 28

Storage RGs move to N+4 when there are ___ or more DFMs per blade

Answer 28

2

Question 29

A ___ Storage RG will be created when the ___ DFM is added

Answer 29

2nd; 36th

Question 30

A FB with ___ or less blades can sustain a blade failure + ___ DFM

Answer 30

17; 1

Question 31

An 18+ blade system can sustain ___ blade failures

Answer 31

2

Question 32

//E uses the same ____ logic as ___

Answer 32

resiliency, //S

Question 33

A ___ algorithm determines which authority is responsible for data

Answer 33

CRUSH

Question 34

CRUSH hashes ____, ____, and ____

Answer 34

inode, offset, and length

Question 35

There are ___ authorities on a FB system

Answer 35

128

Question 36

Authorities are ___ distributed across all blades

Answer 36

randomly

Question 37

Cross protocol is supported between ___ and ___ but ___ can not be accessed via other protocols

Answer 37

NFS and SMB; Object

Question 38

//E only comes in __ capacity configurations

Answer 38

4

Question 39

All storage in FlashBlade can be accessed with ___ IP

Answer 39

One

Question 40

Customers shoudl use a ___ ___ ___ to access the FB

Answer 40

Single port channel

Question 41

ECMP hashes the ___ ___, ____ ____, ___ ___, ___ ___

Answer 41

Source ip, destination ip, source port, and destination port

Question 42

Replicaiton comes in ___ or ____ variety

Answer 42

file or object

Question 42

The ___ hash determines which blade will handle the ___ session

Answer 42

ECMP; TCP

Question 43

____ is the Pure Storage Solution with nvida for AI

Answer 43

AIRI

Question 43

RapidFile Tool Kit speeds up ___ management operation, especially ____ commands

Answer 43

NFS; modifiying

Question 44

File replicaiton is ___ to ___

Answer 44

FlashBlade to FlashBlade

Question 45

Object Replicaiton can support ___ ___ target

Answer 45

AWS S3