Is this a business need that HPE Scalable Object Storage with Scality RING can meet?
Solution: A customer wants to deploy a general purpose storage solution for a new Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange implementation.
- A . Yes
- B . No
A Scality RING environment based on the HPE reference architecture is being designed.
Is this an HPE server that should be recommended as a storage node?
Solution: ML350
- A . Yes
- B . No
A customer has a Scality RING solution with twelve storage servers evenly split between three sites.
Is this the recommended Advanced Resilience Configuration for data drives?
Solution: RAID6 (10+2)
- A . Yes
- B . No
Is this statement true when working with cloud storage?
Solution: It has higher data consistency compared to traditional block storage.
- A . Yes
- B . No
Is this a capability HPE object storage solutions can provide over other types of storage within the HPE portfolio?
Solution: software-defined platform to collapse storage and hypervisors silos into simple, easy-to-scale building blocks
- A . Yes
- B . No
A customer in the logistics industry has several warehouses across the city. They have implemented a new CCTV deployment and need to store and archive thousands of video files for at least one year. Their existing storage infrastructure is a SAN which is quickly running out of capacity. The customer is interested in scalable object storage from HPE, but is concerned about the complexity of the solution given their limited IT staff.
Is this a response the IT professional should provide?
Solution: HPE Scalable Object Storage with Scality RING can be deployed on industry standard x86 servers and Linux.
- A . Yes
- B . No
Is this statement correct when describing S3 Cloud Storage?
Solution: S3 functionality is best for random data access.
- A . Yes
- B . No
During a workshop, a new managed service provider wants to implement an object storage S3-as-a-Service offering based on HPE infrastructure. The managed service provider is interested in deploying a private cloud configuration due to data sovereignty requirements of the subscribers.
Is this a recommendation the IT professional should provide?
Solution: Data-at-Rest Encryption, available on HPE Apollo servers, ensures that all traffic going to AWS is encrypted providing SEC 17a-4 compliance.
- A . Yes
- B . No
A customer is designing a new Scality RING solution for a new web-based application. The customer indicates that 90% of the files are smaller than 60 KB.
If the minimum size of an ARC coded file is 60 KB, is this a true statement?
Solution: Files greater than 60 KB are optimized by Scality reducing overall capacity overhead.
- A . Yes
- B . No
A large organization is experiencing exponential object storage data growth and wants to optimize costs at a petabyte scale.
Should this product be recommended to help the customer control costs with on-premises software-defined storage?
Solution: HPE Synergy 660 Gen10 compute modules with 3PAR All-Flash Arrays
- A . Yes
- B . No
Is this a method to access data in the Scality RING? Solution: NFS
- A . Yes
- B . No
Is this statement true regarding Stretched RING solutions? Solution: File Namespaces are only active on one site.
- A . Yes
- B . No
Does this connector represent a REST API?
Solution: CDMI
- A . Yes
- B . No
A customer currently stores 200 TB of unstructured data that is estimated to grow to 2 PB within 12 months. They are interested in an object storage solution, but they have a limited budget.
Is this a recommendation the IT professional should provide?
Solution: HPE Scalable object storage is built to achieve cloud economics with on-premises deployments.
- A . Yes
- B . No
In a CEPH environment, is this a design criteria to optimize performance?
Solution: Monitor nodes should use mirrored SSDs.
- A . Yes
- B . No
During a workshop, a new managed service provider wants to implement an object storage S3-as-a-Service offering based on HPE infrastructure. The managed service provider is interested in deploying a private cloud configuration due to data sovereignty requirements of the subscribers.
Is this a recommendation the IT professional should provide?
Solution: Scality RING with access to AWS with Sig v2/v4 provides authentication and data encryption that meets the requirements.
- A . Yes
- B . No
A customer in the logistics industry has several warehouses across the city. They have implemented a new CCTV deployment and need to store and archive thousands of video files for at least one year. Their existing storage infrastructure is a SAN which is quickly running out of capacity. The customer is interested in scalable object storage from HPE. but is concerned about the complexity of the solution given their limited IT staff.
Is this a response the IT professional should provide?
Solution: HPE PointNext can provide services to design, deploy, and operate a solution.
- A . Yes
- B . No
An HPE Apollo server environment for a Scality RING using erasure coding is being sized. Is this a component that is important for performance for the erasure coding task?
Solution: Fibre Channel HBA
- A . Yes
- B . No
When delivering a Scality Ring object storage solution, the customer has a legal compliance requirement for long term data retention and will require iTernity iCAS integration.
Is this a Scality Ring Connector that will meet their requirements?
Solution: SOFSSMB Connector
- A . Yes
- B . No
A Scality RING environment based on the HPE reference architecture is being designed. Is this an HPE server that should be recommended as a storage node?
Solution: Apollo 6500
- A . Yes
- B . No
When implementing Scality RING, is this monitoring option provided by the StandardMonitoring service?
Solution: Configurable Alarms
- A . Yes
- B . No
A customer needs a solution that provides the highest availability with the lowest overhead.
They have a single availability zone and twelve servers in their RING and want to be able to continue data access from the Scality RING even when three storage servers are unavailable.
Is this an Erasure Coding schema that will meet their requirements?
Solution: Erasure Coding (12,4)
- A . Yes
- B . No
A customer is interested in deploying a Scality RING solution based on HPE Apollo servers. During a design workshop, the customer asks about best practices to improve performance and availability.
Should this advice be provided?
Solution: Data and Metadata require separate RINGs in physically separated nodes.
- A . Yes
- B . No
Is this a supported Scality RING File Connector? Solution: S3
- A . Yes
- B . No
Is this a design criteria when sizing a fully-populated HPE Apollo 4510 with 68 drives for a CEPH object storage environment?
Solution: Configure RAID1 volumes across two drives at a time to reduce CPU load.
- A . Yes
- B . No
A customer needs to monitor a Scality RING and S3 storage environment. Is this an additional feature above Standard service?
Solution: Capacity Planning
- A . Yes
- B . No
A customer wants to optimize performance for their HPE Scality RING design.
Is this what should be included in the network design to ensure maximum bandwidth between storage nodes and connected clients? Solution: LACP
- A . Yes
- B . No
A customer wants to integrate a Scality solution in a Splunk environment.
Is this a bucket that can be moved to Scality to optimize costs without performance implications? Solution: Frozen
- A . Yes
- B . No
A customer is discussing the use of object storage for backup and recovery using Scality.
Does this statement describe a best practice?
Solution: Most recent data is written to a storage pool of the backup vendor and all other backup data is migrated to the Scality Ring.
- A . Yes
- B . No
A customer wants to optimize performance for their HPE Scality RING design.
Is this what should be included in the network design to ensure maximum bandwidth between storage nodes and connected clients? Solution: dedicated connectors
- A . Yes
- B . No