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HP0-J73 · Question #127

A system administrator wants to add five external juke boxes with four disks each to the wide SCSI controller of a server. The internal boot disks and CD-ROM are installed on a second controller. How

The correct answer is C. 20. Each jukebox presents its four disks as individual LUNs, so 5 jukeboxes multiplied by 4 disks each yields 20 LUNs visible on the wide SCSI controller.

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A system administrator wants to add five external juke boxes with four disks each to the wide SCSI controller of a server. The internal boot disks and CD-ROM are installed on a second controller. How many additional LUNs will be visible on the server after connecting the juke boxes?

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HP0-J73 question #127 exhibit

Options

  • A4
  • B5
  • C20
  • D25

How the community answered

(39 responses)
  • A
    8% (3)
  • B
    15% (6)
  • C
    72% (28)
  • D
    5% (2)

Why each option

Each jukebox presents its four disks as individual LUNs, so 5 jukeboxes multiplied by 4 disks each yields 20 LUNs visible on the wide SCSI controller.

A4

4 would represent only the disks in a single jukebox, ignoring the remaining four enclosures connected to the controller.

B5

5 would represent only the number of jukebox enclosures, not the individual disk LUNs each enclosure exposes to the host.

C20Correct

In SCSI architecture, a jukebox (multi-disk enclosure) connects as a single SCSI target ID on the bus and exposes each internal disk as a distinct Logical Unit Number (LUN). With 5 jukeboxes each containing 4 disks, the server sees 5 x 4 = 20 LUNs. The internal boot disks and CD-ROM on the second controller are irrelevant to this count because they reside on a separate SCSI bus.

D25

25 incorrectly adds the 5 jukebox units themselves to the 20 disk LUNs; in SCSI, the enclosure is the SCSI target and its disks are the LUNs - the enclosure does not appear as a separate addressable LUN alongside its disks.

Concept tested: SCSI LUN addressing with multi-disk enclosures

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/storage/introduction-to-storage-class-drivers

Topics

#SCSI#LUN addressing#disk enclosure#SCSI controller

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