Updated DELL EMC D-MSS-DS-23 Dumps (V10.02): Comprehensive Study Materials for Dell Midrange Storage Solutions Design 2023 Exam

1. Which Dell PowerStore supported media devices carry a FIPS Type D certification?

2. Which SAS SSDs are supported by Dell EMC PowerStore?

3. How many PCI-E lanes are provided for Slot 0 and Slot 1 in Dell EMC Unity XT arrays?

4. A customer has a Dell Unity XT 380F system with a single pool that is built from 24x 800 GB and 24x 1 6 TB SAS Rash 3 drives and 14x 400 SAS Flash 2 drives.

How many drive partnership groups were used to build the dynamic pool?

5. From which storage platforms does a migration import data to a Dell PowerStore cluster?

6. A customer wants to expand their Dell EMC Unity Hybrid system, which includes a pool of 64 drives in a RAID 5 (4+1) configuration.

What is the minimum number of drives needed to expand the pool?

7. Which onboard Dell PowerStore components does the LCC interface sit between?

8. A customer has a Dell EMC Unity 680F array with a single pool consisting of 10 drives configured with RAID 5 (4+1).

What is the minimum number of drives required to expand the pool?

9. A storage administrator plans to complete a technology refresh from a Dell EqualLogic PS6100 to a Dell EMC PowerStore array. The affected hosts are running native MPIO.

What is the recommended method to support an import to PowerStore?

10. To which bus is the Dell EMC Unity 880F DPE connected?

11. What is the minimum recommended amount of Flash capacity in a Dell EMC Unity 480 Hybrid pool?

12. How many hierarchical snapshots are supported by Dell EMC Unity?

13. At what granularity are blocks deduplicated on a Dell EMC PowerStore array?

14. What is the purpose of the NVMe NVRAM drives in a Dell EMC PowerStore 9000 array?

15. A solutions architect must present two different Dell PowerStore options to a customer Both options must contain 90 TB raw in the smallest drive configuration possible A 3000T and a 9000T are the two models requested. The customer wants to know the minimum drive count necessary to perform a capacity upgrade

Which solution should be recommended?

16. A customer requests a proposal for a new Dell EMC SC Series storage system with the following specifications:

✑ IO type: Random

✑ Existing data: 100 TB

✑ Rate of change: 2 TB per day

✑ Growth rate: 100 GB per day

✑ Snapshot retention: 1 week

What storage capacity should be specified to scope the system with Tier 1 RAID 10 protection?

17. Which feature helps to enable file service High Availability on Dell EMC PowerStore?

18. A customer has two Dell S4148FON switches which are not connected to each other. The customer wants to use SMB to present NAS data directly from the array to their users. The solution must have resilience in case a switch outage occurs

Which solution should the technical architect recommend?

19. A systems administrator has deployed a DellUnity XT 380F with 90x 1.92 TB SSDs in a dynamic pool How many drives are allocated as spare space?

20. CORRECT TEXT

A customer has two Dell Unity arrays a Dell Unity 550F and a Dell Unity XT 480 They are undergoing a network refresh and would like to modernize to a 25 GbE network. The customer has asked the technical architect about adding 25 GbE network cards to the Unity systems Both systems have free slots

Which option should the technical architect recommend?

A All Unity and Unity XT systems support 25 GbE.

B. The Unity XT 480 supports a 25 GbE card but the Unity 550F does not support a 25 GbE card

C. The Unity 550F supports a 25 GbE card but the Unity XT 480 does not support a 25 GbE card

D. 25 GbE is not supported on Unity or Unity XT systems

21. Which describes cascade replication on a Dell Unity XT?

22. How should Dell Unity XT storage pools be configured to minimize the chance of running out of space due to snapshot utilization?

23. DRAG DROP

Match each Dell EMC Unity feature with its destination.

24. A customer has invested much time using the Dell PS Series Host Integration Toolkit (HIT) to integrate SAN snapshot protection with Microsoft SQL Server native snapshot technology. The customer expresses concern about whether Dell EMC SC Series cross-platform replication supports that capability.

What should be your response?

25. A Dell PowerStore administrator has been asked to create a NAS file sharing environment for several clients. The clients will be running either Linux (NFS) or Windows (SMB) and must have access to the same data simultaneously

How can this be achieved using Dell PowerStore?

26. Which are benefits of choosing the highest capacity flash drives when designing a Dell Unity XT All-Flash system?

27. A Dell PowerStore 9000X came online after being initially configured seven days ago. The manager Ul shows capacity but no forecasting metrics

Why are forecasting metrics not being displayed?

28. Which describes the Dell Unity XT MetroSync replication topology?

29. The last two drive slots in a Dell EMC PowerStore 3000 are reserved for which type of drive?

30. A Dell Unity XT 480F system ships with two embedded modules, one for each SP.

What does the embedded module provide?

31. What is a feature of Dell EMC Unity unified snapshots?

32. What are characteristics of D@RE on a Dell EMC Unity array?

33. A customer site has four NAS servers participating in MetroSync replication.

Which Dell EMC Unity feature could reduce failover times?

34. A Dell EMC PowerStore customer plans to migrate storage volumes across appliances within a cluster. They want to use minimal effort to ensure that the appliance avoids reaching full capacity.

Which method is recommended?

35. A customer is managing a Dell EMC SC7020 array running SCOS 7.2. The array is running out of capacity. The customer asks you to begin scoping the system for additional drives.

What disk drive redundancy rule applies to 3.84 TB SSDs?

36. What is the minimum RPO that can be configured on a Dell Unity XT block-asynchronous replication session?

37. A Windows client using the SMB protocol is trying to access a multiprotocol file system from a Dell Unity XT NAS server. The local group database was checked and no mapping was found.

What is the next step in the SID to UID resolution process?

38. What component or feature is provided by both the Dell EMC PowerStore 1000T array and the Dell EMC Unity XT 380 Series array?

39. Which Dell EMC Unity feature provides network high availability with active-passive ports when provisioning File storage for a NAS client?

40. A customer wants to provision a file system while creating a NAS server in a Dell EMC PowerStore T system.

What information is needed to create the NAS server?

41. Which front-end protocol card in Dell Unity XT 380 offloads processing to save CPU cycles for other operations?

42. When designing a Dell EMC Unity 480F solution, what is the maximum number of enclosures and drive slots, per bus?

43. How are vVol datastores mounted in Dell EMC PowerStore storage during the creation of vVol datastores in the vSphere environment shared by ESXi hosts?

44. A database volume on a Dell PowerStore cluster has a Protection Policy that is applied with a single snapshot rule. The policy takes a snapshot every hour and retains them for 48 hours. The storage administrator must present a copy of the database volume to a test environment

Which action does the storage administrator take to meet this requirement?

45. What is a benefit of restoring data from a Dell EMC Unity snapshot?

46. What storage resources are affected with a refresh option on a Dell EMC PowerStore array?

47. A technical architect is designing a Dell Unity storage solution. The customer has a monthly data access profile where block data is accessed infrequently. The data is accessed frequently for a few days during month-end reporting.

Based on best practices which solution should the technical architect recommend?

48. What is a benefit of using a performance assessment tool?

49. What is a characteristic of single-tier Flash on Dell EMC SC Series arrays?

50. For Dell EMC SC Series arrays, what is the minimum percentage of total system IOPS that should be applied to Tier 3 drives?

51. What tabs are available on the Dell EMC PowerStore Manager Dashboard?

52. When implementing FAST VP, which Dell EMC best practices should be followed?

53. A storage administrator is deploying a new Dell Unity XT 880F system. The system will be used over FC by several hosts running production databases. The system will also be used over iSCSI to several hosts running tesVdev workloads. The administrator wants to prevent the test/dev hosts from using more than 5000 IOPS

What Unity XT feature can be used for this configuration?

54. Which tool can be used to migrate file data for Windows hosts form a legacy VNX array to a new Dell Unity XT array?

55. What is a consequence of using a 1.6 TB drive and five 400 GB drives in a Dell EMC Unity XT dynamic pool?

56. A customer asks you about the maximum load of their new Dell EMC SC Series array.

Which term should you use in response?

57. In Dell EMC PowerStore storage, if the remote cluster has multiple appliances, then what automatically chooses the destination appliance for the resource?

58. How many hierarchical snapshots are supported by Dell EMC PowerStore 9000X array?

59. A customer asks you about adding 4-port 1 GbE BaseT connectivity to their Dell EMC Unity XT series array.

What should be your response?

60. A customer has a mixed environment consisting of Dell Unity 350F Dell Unity XT 680F. and Dell PowerStore 5000X They want to have a single interface to monitor and report on all the arrays.

Which software tool should the technical architect recommend?

61. A customer wants to asynchronously replicate file data from a production Dell Unity 550F to a remote office in the same city with a UnityVSA When attempting to replicate one of the file systems the replication option is not available.

What should a technical architect advise the customer?

62. Which QoS option is NOT supported by Dell EMC Unity XT?

63. You are designing a Dell EMC PowerStore solution with a customer. They ask if they can populate Slots 0 to 10 with NVMe SSD drives.

What should be your response?

64. A customer must protect file storage resources through asynchronous replication to other Dell Unity XT systems in different locations.

What is the maximum number of remote systems that can be configured?

65. A customer has a fully scaled-out Dell PowerStore T cluster and wants to ensure that PowerStore Manager is in a highly available configuration

How many instances of PowerStore Manager should be installed, and why?

66. A storage administrator wants to do a tech refresh from a legacy EQL system to a new Dell EMC SC Series array.

What is needed to correctly size the new array?

67. How many replication rules can be applied to a cluster in Dell EMC PowerStore?

68. What is the minimum number of IP addresses for optimal performance of PowerStore X ?

69. You are sizing a new Dell EMC SC Series array. Upon analyzing the Live Optics report, you find the current system has a peak throughput of 4687 MB.

What is the minimum number of 10Gb iSCSI front-end ports required to meet the throughput needs?

70. What is achieved by adding a top tier of SSDs when designing a Dell Unity XT hybrid solution with FAST VP and FAST Cache?

71. A storage administrator is trying to create a new hybrid pool on their Dell Unity XT 680.

They want to add

• 18x3.84 TBSSD drives

• 72x 1200 GB 10K SAS drives

• 64x 12 TBNLSAS drives

However, this action is not being permitted by the Unity software.

What is the reason for this?

72. Which parameters can be selected when sizing a Dell Unity XT 480F using the System Design method?

73. DRAG DROP

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74. Which NAS protocols does Dell PowerStore support?

75. How many fans in a Dell EMC PowerStore node can fail before it shuts down?

76. Which Dell PowerStore migration method is recommended to remediate an out of space condition?

77. Which Dell EMC tool uses an HTML5 interface and best practices to predict storage performance?

78. Which file resources are supported with Dell EMC Unity asynchronous replication?

79. Which Dell EMC Midrange solution is configured for block storage with a built-in hypervisor?

80. You are designing a Dell EMC Unity solution. You need to model expected array performance based om IOPS capability, storage capacity, and RAID type.

Which Midrange Sizer design path should you take?

81. When sizing a Dell EMC Unity Hybrid array, what are considerations for performance?

82. Which QoS options are supported by Dell EMC Unity XT?

83. When a remove replication operation is performed on a Dell EMC PowerStore array, what happens to the destination storage resource?

84. An ISP needs a data storage solution that allows them to set policies over resource usage. The solution needs to support network multi-tenancy while also providing full network failover protection.

What combination of Dell EMC SC Series features meets these requirements?

85. Which CPU family is used on a Dell Unity XT 480?

86. How does configuring snapshot retention differ when manually creating snapshots in the Dell EMC Unity GUI, compared to using the Unity CLI?

87. A technical architect is designing a Dell Unity XT 480 using the System Designer option of Sizer.

What is the recommended minimum amount of Flash that they should specify?

88. What are the inputs and outputs of the Unity Designer tool?

89. You are upgrading a Dell EMC Unity array to a Dell EMC PowerStore 1000 T array. The customer asks what they need to do so they can map PowerStore snapshots from the new PowerStore array to a host.

What should be your response?

90. What initiates an automatic NAS server failover to the peer SP?