Free Dell Midrange Storage Solutions Design 2023 Exam D-MSS-DS-23 Exam Practice Test

Which disk format is recommended when deploying a Dual-SP Dell Unity VSA?

• Thick Provision Eager Zeroed
• Thin Provisioned
• Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed

What is a Dell recommendation when connecting ESXi hosts to PowerStore?

• Use the default 32k host I/O size when using VMware NFS Datastores.
• Configure a minimum of two NAS servers when using vVol Datastores.
• Configure Round Robin Multipathing with an IOPS limit of 1024.
• Disable DelayedACK when configured using iSCSI.

For a PowerStore 3200T running Block Workloads, which two options does Sizer take into consideration to equate the performance for each workload? (Select 2)

• Throughput
• Frontend Performance Saturation
• Response Time
• Storage Performance Saturation

Which two statements are correct in reference to an NVMe Expansion Enclosure attached to a PowerStore? (Select 2)

• Slots for 25 2.5-inch NVMe drives
• Requires v2 embedded module in base enclosure
• Not supported on systems that include SAS expansion enclosures
• Supports the use of NVMe SCM Drives

What is skew?

• Uniform distribution of I/O over storage capacity
• Sustained per-port IOPS
• Bursty per-port IOPS
• Non-uniform distribution of I/O over storage capacity

In a Dell Unity XT system, SSD wear alerts are issued at 180-, 90-, 60-, and 30-day periods before the predicted end of life. What is automatically initiated on the spare drive at 30 days?

• Predictive Copy Operations
• Protective Copy Operations
• Preemptive Copy Operations
• Proactive Copy Operations

What is the maximum throughput per port in backend 12 GB SAS ports in Dell Unity XT arrays?

• 2,000 Mbps
• 2,500 Mbps
• 25,000 Mbps
• 250 Mbps

What are the default DRR values in the PowerStore sizing tool for block and file workloads?

• Block = 4:1 File = 4:1
• Block = 4:1 File = 2:1
• Block = 1:1 File = 1:1
• Block = 2:1 File = 2:1

What is the maximum number of thin clones per base LUN within Dell Unity XT?

• 12
• 32
• 16
• 24

A company has a Dell Unity XT 880 at its Boston site providing file storage for a business production application. The company has a second remote site 8 km (5 mi) away in Cambridge. A third site is in New York (342 km (213 mi) from the Boston site). How can the same production data be protected against system outage with a zero RPO and a maximum of 15 minutes RPO data recovery?

• Synchronous replicate from Boston to Cambridge Asynchronous replicate from Boston to New York
• Synchronous replicate from Boston to Cambridge Synchronous replicate from Boston to New York
• Asynchronous replicate from Boston to Cambridge Asynchronous replicate from Cambridge to New York
• Synchronous replicate from Boston to Cambridge Synchronous replicate from Cambridge to New York