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D-PWF-OE-00 · Question #12

What steps are required to configure a Storage Pool? (Choose two)

The correct answer is A. Define the Protection Domain B. Assign drives with similar performance characteristics. Configuring a Storage Pool requires first defining the Protection Domain (A), which establishes the logical boundary and data protection policies governing the pool, and assigning drives with similar performance characteristics (B), which ensures consistent I/O performance and…

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Question

What steps are required to configure a Storage Pool? (Choose two)

Options

  • ADefine the Protection Domain
  • BAssign drives with similar performance characteristics
  • CEnable replication between clusters
  • DConfigure VLAN tagging for the Storage Pool

How the community answered

(32 responses)
  • A
    88% (28)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    9% (3)

Explanation

Configuring a Storage Pool requires first defining the Protection Domain (A), which establishes the logical boundary and data protection policies governing the pool, and assigning drives with similar performance characteristics (B), which ensures consistent I/O performance and prevents fast drives from being bottlenecked by slow ones within the same pool.

Option C is wrong because replication between clusters is a separate data protection or disaster recovery feature - it operates at a higher level and is not a prerequisite step for creating a Storage Pool itself.

Option D is wrong because VLAN tagging is a network-layer configuration for traffic segmentation; Storage Pools are defined at the storage layer and have no dependency on VLAN setup.

Memory tip: Think "PD + Performance = Pool" - you need a Protection Domain to define what is protected, and Performance-matched drives to define what goes in. Anything about networking (VLANs) or cross-cluster replication is outside the scope of pool creation.

Topics

#Storage Pool#Protection Domain#drive configuration

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