You get a call from a customer that has just added 200 user connections to the cluster. They want
to know how fast they are writing data with these new users.
What tool would you use to gather this information?

You are asked about a potential new customer and you would like to get more information on the
data skew of their filer. They have a supported filer.
What assessment tool would you use to generate this information?

A customer has grown 2 PB in the last year. The cluster performs well most times of the day, but
occasionally during the day, the customer notices a decrease in performance. You have been told
that ‘tree-deletes’ are taking too long and can only be run on weekends.

What would you recommend to speed up the ‘tree-deletes’?

A customer has eight X400 24GB RAM nodes that support 400 client connections. They will be
adding 400 more clients in the next few months. They are looking at adding an A-Series node to
the cluster to help with client connections. Before they start adding client connections, what
hardware change do you recommend?

You are asked to size a cluster for a file sharing environment. nfsstat indicates that no more than
10% of the requests are namespace operations (e.g. GETADDR, SETADDR). There will be
10,000 active Linux users, connecting over NFS.
Which cluster configuration would you recommend?