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SG0-001 · Question #207

For which of the following thresholds would it be MOST important to set an alert for thin provisioned storage?

The correct answer is D. Capacity used. The question asks which threshold is most critical to monitor with alerts for thin provisioned storage to prevent operational issues.

Storage Management

Question

For which of the following thresholds would it be MOST important to set an alert for thin provisioned storage?

Options

  • AWrite cache used
  • BFragmentation percentage
  • CIOPS
  • DCapacity used

How the community answered

(24 responses)
  • A
    8% (2)
  • B
    4% (1)
  • C
    13% (3)
  • D
    75% (18)

Why each option

The question asks which threshold is most critical to monitor with alerts for thin provisioned storage to prevent operational issues.

AWrite cache used

Write cache used is a performance metric that can indicate bottlenecks but does not directly warn about the physical storage pool exhaustion that is critical for thin-provisioned volumes.

BFragmentation percentage

Fragmentation percentage impacts performance over time but is not the most critical alert to prevent a complete storage outage due to insufficient physical capacity in a thin-provisioned environment.

CIOPS

IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) is a performance metric that measures throughput but does not directly indicate the physical space availability of the underlying storage pool for thin-provisioned volumes.

DCapacity usedCorrect

For thin provisioned storage, setting an alert on 'Capacity used' is most important because if the physical storage pool backing the thin-provisioned volumes runs out of space, new write operations will fail, leading to critical service interruptions. Monitoring this threshold allows proactive intervention by adding more physical storage before an outage occurs.

Concept tested: Monitoring thin-provisioned storage

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/thin-provisioning-management

Topics

#Thin provisioning#Capacity monitoring#Alerting#Storage management

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