A solutions architect is designing a PowerStore T solution for a VDI environment with 2,000 persistent desktops. The primary design goal is to minimize storage latency while ensuring predictable performance during boot storms. The architect is using the PowerSizer tool for the design. Which drive configuration should be prioritized in the design to meet these requirements?
During a site evaluation for a new Dell Unity XT 880F array, a consultant notes that the customer's datacenter has limited rack space and only provides 208V single-phase power. The proposed solution includes the 2U base array and three 2U 25-drive DAEs. What is the most critical environmental remediation step the customer must perform before installation?
A storage administrator is configuring asynchronous replication for a critical file system between two Dell Unity XT arrays. The primary business requirement is to minimize the potential for data loss in a disaster, which translates to the lowest possible Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Which setting should be configured for the replication session to meet this requirement?
True or False: On a Dell PowerStore X array, AppsON allows for the direct deployment of VMware virtual machines on the appliance, but it does not support running containerized applications using Kubernetes.
A consultant is using the Midrange Sizer tool to design a Dell Unity XT 480F solution for a mixed workload environment consisting of SQL databases and file shares. The customer has provided detailed IOPS, capacity, and growth requirements. Which TWO of the following are direct outputs or deliverables from the Midrange Sizer tool that can be presented to the customer? (Select TWO)
**Case Study:** A mid-sized manufacturing company is refreshing its aging storage infrastructure, which currently consists of a legacy Fibre Channel SAN. The company runs a critical ERP system on a physical Oracle database server and a large VMware cluster for development, testing, and corporate applications. They have acquired a new Dell PowerStore 5000T array to consolidate these workloads. The IT team's primary objectives are to ensure a non-disruptive migration for the production Oracle ERP system and to simplify storage management for the VMware environment. The Oracle database is highly sensitive to I/O latency, and the business has mandated zero downtime for its migration. The VMware administrators want to manage storage provisioning directly from vCenter to streamline their workflows. The network infrastructure includes a 16Gb Fibre Channel SAN and a 10GbE iSCSI network. The IT team is small, so operational simplicity is a key factor in the solution design. They are concerned about the complexity of migrating the physical Oracle server's data LUNs while the application is running. Which design and migration strategy best meets all the company's requirements?
An architect is designing a storage solution for a new application that will have highly variable and unpredictable I/O patterns. The initial deployment is small, but it is expected to grow rapidly. To optimize storage costs, the architect wants to allocate physical capacity only as it is written by the application. Which Dell Unity XT feature should be used for the application's LUNs?
A customer wants to deploy a Dell PowerStore array and has a workload characterized by a high percentage of small, random reads and a working set size that is approximately 10% of the total dataset size. To accelerate performance for this workload, which Unity feature's equivalent concept in PowerStore should the designer focus on?
When planning a non-disruptive OS upgrade on a clustered Dell PowerStore T array, what is a mandatory pre-requisite step that must be performed using the Pre-Upgrade Health Check (PUHC) tool or its equivalent in PowerStore Manager?
A financial institution is designing a disaster recovery solution between two data centers using Dell Unity XT arrays with native asynchronous replication. The primary data center hosts a database with a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 15 minutes and a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 30 minutes. The network link between sites has 20ms latency. Which statement accurately describes the suitability of the proposed replication method? ```mermaid graph TD subgraph Primary DC DB[Database] --> UnityA[Unity XT Array] end subgraph DR DC UnityB[Unity XT Array] end UnityA -- "Async Replication (20ms latency)" --> UnityB ```