A customer is deploying PowerProtect Data Manager OVA and wants to use thick provisioning. What is the required minimum free space?

Question

Options

• A3.9 GB
• B4.0 GB
• C319 GB
• D635 GB

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  4% (2)
• D
  91% (41)

Explanation

Option D (635 GB) is correct because thick provisioning pre-allocates the entire virtual disk space upfront at deployment time, requiring all disk capacity to be physically available on the datastore before the VM even powers on - and the PPDM OVA's full disk footprint totals 635 GB when fully provisioned this way.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (3.9 GB) and B (4.0 GB) reflect the approximate size of the OVA file/thin-provisioned footprint - what you need to download or initially deploy, not what thick provisioning reserves.
• C (319 GB) is a plausible-sounding midpoint but doesn't correspond to any defined PPDM deployment tier; it may tempt candidates who assume thick provisioning is "roughly half" of some other value.

Memory tip: Think "Thick = Total commitment upfront." With thick provisioning, the hypervisor locks down every byte immediately - so you need the full 635 GB free before deployment starts, not just what the software uses on day one. If you see a thin-provisioning question on the same exam, anchor it to the ~4 GB OVA size as the contrast.

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