PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Solutions Design (PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Models)

Question 1

What are the nodes referred to in PowerMax?

Answer 1

Brick

Question 2

What are the nodes referred to in VMAX?

Answer 2

V-Bricks

Question 3

What is the scalability of PowerMax 2000?

Answer 3

1-2 Bricks

Question 4

What is the scalability of PowerMax 8000?

Answer 4

1-8 Bricks

Question 5

What is the scalability of VMAX 250F?

Answer 5

1-2 V-Bricks

Question 6

What is the scalability of VMAX 950F?

Answer 6

1-8 V-Bricks

Question 7

What are the max drives on PowerMax 2000?

Answer 7

96

Question 8

What are the max drives on PowerMax 8000?

Answer 8

288

Question 9

What are the max drives on VMAX 250F?

Answer 9

100

Question 10

What are the max drives on VMAX 950F?

Answer 10

1920

Question 11

What is the benefit of the Dynamic Virtual Matrix?

Answer 11

enables hundreds of CPU cores to be pooled and allocated on-demand to meet the performance requirements for dynamic mixed workloads

Question 12

How does the Dynamic Virtual Matrix work?

Answer 12

resources are dynamically apportioned to host applications, data services, and storage pools to meet application service levels

Question 13

How does provisioning work on PowerMax/VMAX?

Answer 13

all virtually provisioned

Question 14

How are PowerMax/VMAX configured?

Answer 14

come preconfigured from factory

creates all required data pools and RAID levels for the configuration in the array

Question 15

What are Management Module Control Stations (MMCS) in PowerMax/VMAX?

Answer 15

integrated service processor that provides environmental monitoring of arrays

Question 16

What does eManagement do on PowerMax/VMAX?

Answer 16

enables customers to run array management software components inside of array

Question 17

What does Dell EMC Solutions Enabler allow on PowerMax?

Answer 17

provide array management and control of the arrays

Question 18

What are the data reduction technologies available on PowerMax and VMAX?

Answer 18

inline compression

Question 19

What is true about compression in PowerMax/VMAX?

Answer 19

enabled by default

new IO to a SG is compressed when written to disk

if there is existing data on the SG it starts to compress in the background

Question 20

What happens if you turn compression off in PowerMax/VMAX?

Answer 20

new IO is no longer compressed and existing data remains compressed until it is written again (at which time it will decompress)

Question 21

What data is compression available on?

Answer 21

open systems (FBA) data only

includes eNAS data

Question 22

What is true about deduplication in PowerMax/VMAX?

Answer 22

can’t operate independent of compression (must have compression on to enable dedupe)

operates across entire system (not possible to use compression only on some SGs and compression + dedupe on others)

available on open systems (FBA) only

Question 23

What are the data reduction technologies available only on PowerMax?

Answer 23

inline compression + Deduplication

Question 24

What is PowerProtect Storage Direct?

Answer 24

integration between PowerMax or VMAX arrays and Data Domain to back up production data

Question 25

How does PowerProtect Storage Direct work?

Answer 25

TimeFinder SnapVX is used to create a snapshot of a LUN Storage Direct copies the snapshot to DD system change tracking is enabled so only changes made are copied

Question 26

How many hosts can PowerPath software on PowerMax support?

Answer 26

75

Question 27

What does PowerPath do?

Answer 27

dynamically routes IO to the most efficient paths using patented algorithms to balance workloads

Question 28

What is the advantage of using PowerPath?

Answer 28

users gain the automated data path management and load balancing for all heterogenous servers, network, and storage enables more predictable application availability and up to three times the IOPS

Question 29

What is eNAS on PowerMax?

Answer 29

embedded network attached storage extends file level storage to PowerMax/VMAX

Question 30

How does eNAS work?

Answer 30

storage hypervisor on the array manages and protects embedded services by extending high availability to these services that traditionally run outside of the array

Question 31

What are the software components that provide the NAS services on PowerMax and VMAX?

Answer 31

Data Movers Control Stations

Question 32

What are the protocols that work w/ PowerMax/VMAX?

Answer 32

FC, iSCSI, CIFS, SMB, NFS