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1Y0-401 · Question #83

Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a multi-server Provisioning Services solution for CGE. The solution must be highly available and minimize the risk of vDisk inconsistency. Why does…

The correct answer is B. It provides the highest performance. High-speed local storage directly contributes to high performance, which is essential for responsive vDisk access and overall system availability in Citrix Provisioning Services.

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Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a multi-server Provisioning Services solution for CGE. The solution must be highly available and minimize the risk of vDisk inconsistency. Why does implementing high-speed local storage with deduplication satisfy the requirements?

Options

  • AIt provides striping.
  • BIt provides the highest performance.
  • CIt provides fault tolerance.
  • DIt provides minimal disk usage.

How the community answered

(13 responses)
  • B
    92% (12)
  • D
    8% (1)

Why each option

High-speed local storage directly contributes to high performance, which is essential for responsive vDisk access and overall system availability in Citrix Provisioning Services.

AIt provides striping.

High-speed local storage itself does not inherently provide striping; striping is a RAID configuration across multiple disks.

BIt provides the highest performance.Correct

High-speed local storage, such as NVMe or fast SSDs, offers superior I/O operations per second (IOPS) and low latency. This direct access to fast storage significantly enhances vDisk loading and streaming performance, crucial for a highly available PVS solution.

CIt provides fault tolerance.

Local storage with deduplication does not inherently provide fault tolerance; fault tolerance requires redundancy mechanisms like RAID or replication.

DIt provides minimal disk usage.

While deduplication reduces the physical storage needed, the 'high-speed' aspect primarily addresses performance, which is the direct benefit for a highly available system rather than just minimal disk usage.

Concept tested: High-speed local storage performance for PVS

Source: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/provisioning/current-release/configure/storage.html

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#Provisioning Services#High performance storage#Deduplication#Storage design

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