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D-PSC-DS-23 · Question #235

A customer has grown 2 PB in the last year. The cluster performs well most times of the day, but occasionally during the day, the customer notices a decrease in performance. You have been told that…

The correct answer is D. Add an SSD tier for metadata, ensuring all nodes have SSDs. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

A customer has grown 2 PB in the last year. The cluster performs well most times of the day, but occasionally during the day, the customer notices a decrease in performance. You have been told that tree-deletes' are taking too long and can only be run on weekends. What would you recommend to speed up the tree-deletes'?

Options

  • AAdd an SSD node tier for metadata to account for at least 2% of RAW capacity
  • BUse an A100 node for added CPU performance to help with `tree-deletes.'
  • CAdd 20% more nodes to the cluster to help with degraded performance.
  • DAdd an SSD tier for metadata, ensuring all nodes have SSDs.

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  • A
    6% (2)
  • B
    18% (6)
  • C
    6% (2)
  • D
    71% (24)

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