PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Solutions Design (Monitoring Compliance + Workload Planning)

Question 1

For systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977 what is the only SL available?

Answer 1

Diamond

Question 2

What must you do to rename a SL?

Answer 2

must be a user w/ storage admin rights in Unisphere

have HYPERMAX OS 5977 or higher

SL name must be unique and less than 32 characters

Question 3

What makes up the Efficiency value on the Unisphere Dashboard?

Answer 3

efficiency savings from data reduction, snapshot savings, and virtual provisioning

Question 4

What is Subscription in terms of an SG Demand Report?

Answer 4

the total provisioned capacity (allocated + free to be allocated)

Question 5

What is Allocated in terms of an SG Demand Report?

Answer 5

the storage capacity an SG has been allotted in its subscription

Question 6

What is Used in terms of an SG Demand Report?

Answer 6

the quantity of allocated pool capacity (in GB) used by the SG

Question 7

What is Compression Ratio in terms of an SG Demand Report?

Answer 7

ratio between the original size of the data and its size after being compressed

Question 8

What is Workload Planner (WLP)?

Answer 8

software layer that abstracts the array as a provider of services

converts array status (disks, ports, directors) to array capabilities

Question 9

How does WLP in Unisphere work?

Answer 9

uses SL sizing methods

Question 10

What are the main WLP features called?

Answer 10

Headroom Indicator
Suitability Check

Question 11

What is a Headroom Indicator?

Answer 11

gauges the remaining capacity per SL

enables planning how many workloads can be provisioned

Question 12

What is a Suitability Check?

Answer 12

determines if the capacity and SL request can be met by the arrays current workload

Question 13

What must be on in order to use WLP?

Answer 13

requires array is registered for performance data collection

Question 14

What is WLP primarily used for?

Answer 14

to display performance metrics for applications

model the impact of migrating workload from one storage system to another

Question 15

What OS must a system have to run WLP?

Answer 15

Enginuity OS 5876

HYPERMAX OS 5977

Question 16

What are the criteria for an SG to be eligible for WLP?

Answer 16

must be on locally attached storage system registered for performance planning

must belong to only one masking view

must contain only FBA volumes

must be managed by a Unisphere server installed on an on prem host

Question 17

What are the criteria for an SG to be eligible for WLP specifically for systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977?

Answer 17

SGs must be associated w/ an SL

Question 18

What are the criteria for an SG to be eligible for WLP specifically for systems running Enginuity 5876?

Answer 18

SGs must be associated w/ a FAST policy

Question 19

What is the Data Exclusion Window feature?

Answer 19

enables excluding specific performance statistics that affect reporting

Question 20

What are the two panels given in Data Exclusion Window settings?

Answer 20

One Time Data Exclusion - two weeks worth of data

Recurring System Data Exclusion - one week of data

Question 21

What is required to run Suitability Check?

Answer 21

HYPERMAX OS 5977 or higher

Question 22

What is Dell Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI)?

Answer 22

plug-in for VMWare vCenter

enables admins to perform Dell storage management tasks from vCenter

admin uses vCenter client to manage/provision storage

Question 23

What are the two parts of VSI?

Answer 23

GUI

Dell EMC Solution Integration Service (SIS)

Question 24

What is Dell EMC SIS?

Answer 24

programming interface that provides communications to the storage and data protection systems

Question 25

What is required for PowerMax to use VSI?

Answer 25

have Unisphere/PowerMax OS 9.X

ESXi must have masking view of the array

array must be registered in VSI