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E20-326 · Question #227

A customer plans to configure their new Symmetrix VMAX 20K. They want your advice on how to configure a storage pool. This new storage pool will handle large block, sequential write I/O. What advice…

The correct answer is B. Use RAID 5 because it can be more efficient for sequential writes than RAID 1. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

A customer plans to configure their new Symmetrix VMAX 20K. They want your advice on how to configure a storage pool. This new storage pool will handle large block, sequential write I/O. What advice should be provided about RAID types as they relate to performance?

Options

  • AUse RAID 1 because RAID 5 will have an overhead penalty.
  • BUse RAID 5 because it can be more efficient for sequential writes than RAID 1.
  • CUse RAID 6 because both RAID 1 and RAID 5 have a higher overhead penalty.
  • DRAID type does not matter since everything in the VMAX goes through cache.

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  • A
    8% (3)
  • B
    73% (29)
  • C
    18% (7)
  • D
    3% (1)

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