When using the XtremIO PoC Toolkit, what is the purpose of the Age phase?

A customer is considering a six brick dispersed cluster using 3×40U racks. The customer wants advice on racking the InfiniBand switches.

• Rack 1 (left) contains X-Bricks 1 and 2
• Rack 2 (middle) contains X-Bricks 3 and 4
• Rack 3 (right) contains X-Bricks 5 and 6

Which recommendation should be provided?

When using a 10 TB single X-Brick, what is the minimum amount of data that should be written during the Fill phase of the PoC Toolkit?

As shown in the exhibit, a customer’s environment is configured as follows:

• Dual X-Brick cluster
• 8 ESXi hosts with 2 HBAs
• Each ESXi hosts has 8 LUNs
• Each LUN is visible through 4 paths

What should be the host queue depth setting per path?

When creating XtremIO volumes for a host, which operating systems will benefit by changing the default logical block size for applications consisting of 4 KB I/Os?

A physical XtremIO Management Server (XMS) has failed and requires replacement. Which two software packages are required for recovery?

A customer has a large ESX server environment they are considering deploying to XtremIO for a VDI implementation. To determine a baseline of the environment, you are proceeding with documenting each server’s CPU, NIC, and disk utilization statistics. The customer has provided you with direct CLI access to the servers to conduct this assessment.

Which utility should be used to monitor these performance parameters?

Based on XtremIO Data Protection, how many dedicated hot spare disks per X-Brick are required?

An administrator receives an error on an XtremIO array while performing snapshot refreshes to a production volume. What is a potential cause for this issue?

You are designing an XtremIO solution for a potential customer. If the server and storage information is available, which information should be documented regarding the customer’s capacity expectations?