What would be the best price/performance solution for their active data?

We have been engaged by a research hospital to help upgrade their Isilon installation. They currently have 12 previous generation Isilon nodes with 200TB of capacity and run on a 1Gbps network. They currently have 6 IIlumina Hi-Seq Sequencers and an HPC cluster to process data. They would like to...

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At which level can retention periods be applied with Isilon SmartLock?

At which level can retention periods be applied with Isilon SmartLock?A . DirectoryB . NodeC . File systemD . ClusterView AnswerAnswer: D

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Which Isilon Gen 6 node models can use only L3 cache?

Which Isilon Gen 6 node models can use only L3 cache?A . A200 and A2000B . A200 and H5600C . F800 and H600D . F800 and A2000View AnswerAnswer: A

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What is the recommended solution that will meet this company's requirements?

A company currently has multiple fileservers to provide home directories for its employees. Each department has a separate fileserver. Most corporate users are on Windows clients and utilize Active Directory, except for the Engineering department, which uses Linux and NIS for authentication. The company is looking for a solution with...

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What do you recommend to the Director of IT as the best architecture to achieve this goal?

A large manufacturing company is an existing Isilon customer with a cluster consisting of four NL400 nodes with 4TB drives. The cluster is using N+2:1 protection level and the file system shows that it is 60% utilized. Home directories and file shares comprise 75% of the existing content and the...

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What can the administrator do to prevent such situation to happen in the future?

An insurance company is using PowerScale H700 nodes to store their data. A systems administrator conducts a capacity assessment and notices that the available space has decreased significantly. During investigation, the administrator finds that several users are storing their PST and MP4 files on the cluster which occupies a large...

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Which supported tool should be recommended?

A customer has two Isilon clusters. Cluster 1 has eight H500 nodes and cluster 2 has twelve H500 nodes. The customer needs to be able to monitor real time performance data of the clusters as well as track file growth. Which supported tool should be recommended?A . InsightIQB . Data...

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What do you recommend to the customer?

A European Sports TV network is considering Isilon for their Media Edit Storage for their editing workloads. They are also considering Isilon for near-line media archiving. The network receives XDCAM HD footage which is loaded onto their existing Transcoding Storage platform. New footage that needs to be edited will be...

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What is the recommended configuration for the physical network interfaces?

There is a requirement to use dynamic link aggregation to maximize throughput and resiliency on a new Isilon cluster servicing SMB and NFS data. What is the recommended configuration for the physical network interfaces?A . FECB . Round robinC . Active/passive failoverD . LACPView AnswerAnswer: C

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How does an Isilon cluster address this customer's concern?

A potential customer has a requirement for 4 PB of usable capacity to store media files. Their data center has limited physical space, so efficient use of that space is important. However, the customer is concerned about using 3 TB or larger drives because of rebuild times. How does an...

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