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D-PSC-DS-23 · Question #146

A customer is looking for a new storage solution to handle their growing storage requirements. The system should be able to cover storage needs for the next three years. The environment consists of…

The correct answer is A. Isilon for file system data, and a VNX for DB and VMware workloads. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

A customer is looking for a new storage solution to handle their growing storage requirements. The system should be able to cover storage needs for the next three years. The environment consists of 100 TBs of file system data spread across five file systems. On average, the file systems grow 1 TB a month. In addition, they have a large VMware cluster supporting 200 VMs and a highly transactional database. The customer is looking for a solution that would provide good performance, scalability, manageability, and be cost-effective. The sales team is looking to you to recommend a solution. Which recommendation will meet the customer's requirements?

Options

  • AIsilon for file system data, and a VNX for DB and VMware workloads
  • BIsilon cluster and scale-out as required
  • CVNX Unified platform with FAST Cache
  • DVMAX with FAST VP and a NAS Gateway

How the community answered

(26 responses)
  • A
    81% (21)
  • B
    12% (3)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • D
    4% (1)

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