Which component is reconfigured when expanding metadata storage in PowerFlex?

Question

Options

• AStorage Pools
• BFault Sets
• CMetadata Managers
• DReplication Targets

• A
  4% (2)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  87% (46)
• D
  8% (4)

Explanation

Metadata Managers (MDMs) are the control-plane components in PowerFlex responsible for storing and managing all system metadata - including volume mappings, SDS locations, and cluster configuration. When the metadata workload grows (e.g., more volumes, SDSs, or hosts), the MDM cluster itself must be reconfigured (commonly expanding from a 3-node to a 5-node MDM cluster) to handle the increased metadata demand.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• Storage Pools (A) are logical groupings of physical drives that manage data capacity, not metadata.
• Fault Sets (B) define failure domain boundaries to protect against correlated hardware failures - they have no role in metadata storage.
• Replication Targets (D) are destinations used in data replication workflows and are unrelated to metadata infrastructure.

Memory tip: Think of MDMs as the "brain" of PowerFlex - just as a brain grows more complex as a system scales, the Metadata Manager cluster is what you expand when the system's metadata needs more capacity. "More data about data = more MDMs."

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