Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment. Machine Creation Services has been selected for image management. Which storage feature should the architect…

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• ARead caching
• BStorage tiering
• CThin provisioning
• DData de-duplication

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  14% (5)
• C
  78% (29)
• D
  5% (2)

Explanation

Explanation/Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenapp-and-xendesktop/7-15-ltsr/citrix-vdi-best-practices/design/design- Decision: Thin Provisioning Thin provisioning allows more storage space to be presented to the virtual machines than is actually available on the storage repository. This lowers storage costs by allowing virtual machines access to disk space that is often unused. This is particularly beneficial to Machine Creation Services which uses a linked-clone approach to provisioning virtual machines. Thin provisioning minimizes the storage space required for the master image copies used to build virtual machines. Thin provisioning is possible at the physical storage layer, a feature usually available with most SAN solutions, and at the virtual layer. NFS based storage solutions will usually have thin provisioning enabled by default. Decision: Data De-Duplication Data de-duplication is a data compression technique whereby duplicate data is replaced with pointers to a single copy of the original item. This reduces storage requirements and costs by improving storage utilization, however it can impact storage performance.

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