A customer is looking for a new storage solution to handle their growing storage requirements.
The system should be able to cover storage needs for the next three years. The environment
consists of 100 TBs of file system data spread across five file systems. On average, the file
systems grow 1 TB a month. In addition, they have a large VMware cluster supporting 200 VMs
and a highly transactional database.
The customer is looking for a solution that would provide good performance, scalability,
manageability, and be cost-effective. The sales team is looking to you to recommend a solution.
Which recommendation will meet the customer’s requirements?

If a file is 4 KB in size, how much space is consumed for file data when it is written to the Isilon
cluster?

A customer wants to consolidate approximately 300 TB of home directory servers and shared file
systems used by development and test groups. A key requirement is to prevent the development
and test systems from consuming all free capacity and impacting home directory content.

Which Isilon configuration should be proposed?

A customer plans to consolidate 200 TB of digital images and video content. Performance is
important for recently created files. However, the customer wants any content that has not been
accessed within 30 days to be stored in the cluster at a much lower cost because performance is
no longer critical. Which Isilon configuration should be recommended?

You are assisting a customer with creating an Isilon solution that will address their needs while
remaining cost-effective. The customer environment consists entirely of archive data. The data in
their enterprise produces very little I/O and is only occasionally accessed.
Which Isilon storage node type will meet the customer’s needs?

You are assisting a customer with creating an Isilon solution that will address their needs while
remaining cost-effective. The customer environment consists of high IOPS-intensive, random
access file-based applications. Which Isilon storage node type will meet the customer’s needs?

Which node type adds CPU, memory, and Fibre Channel connectivity?

Which Isilon OneFS job is responsible for examining the entire file system for inconsistencies and
runs manually?

In a supported cluster with the maximum protection level, how many simultaneous node
component failures can Isilon OneFS sustain while still allowing full access to the entire file system
and dataset?

A customer wants an N+3 protection level on a cluster. What is the minimum number of nodes that
needs to be purchased to achieve that level of protection?