How can an administrator recover data from a snapshot in PowerFlex?

Question

Options

• AUse the "Restore Snapshot" option in the GUI
• BAssign the snapshot to a protection domain
• CReplicate the snapshot to another cluster
• DConfigure the snapshot for shared file systems

• A
  91% (30)
• C
  6% (2)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Restoring data from a PowerFlex snapshot is accomplished through the "Restore Snapshot" option in the GUI (option A), which maps the snapshot back to the source volume, effectively rolling it back to the point-in-time state captured when the snapshot was taken - this is the standard, built-in recovery workflow.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B - Protection domains are a network/fault isolation construct for organizing SDS nodes and SDCs; you assign storage pools to them, not snapshots, and this has no role in data recovery.
• C - Replication copies data to a remote cluster for disaster recovery; it doesn't recover existing data and requires separate configuration entirely.
• D - Shared file systems (NFS/SMB via NAS) are a separate feature layer; snapshot recovery for block volumes is not done by configuring file system sharing.

Memory tip: Think "Restore = GUI button" - PowerFlex follows the intuitive pattern of most enterprise storage platforms where snapshot recovery is a direct, single-action operation in the management interface, not a multi-step infrastructure change like replication or domain assignment.

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