EMC D-UN-DY-23 Dell Unity Deploy 2023 Exam Exam Practice Test

If the time difference between the current system (UTC) time and the NTP server time is too large (approximately 17 minutes), the user cannot configure an NTP server during initial configuration. The user will need to adjust the time while in “Set time manually” mode before changing to “Enable NTP synchronization”. This is to avoid potential issues with data replication, snapshots, and audit logs that rely on accurate time stamps. References: Dell EMC Unity: How to change System Time from ‘Set time manually’ option to NTP2, page 1.

 Mixing FC and iSCSI protocols for the same host and array is not supported by Dell EMC Unity. This can cause issues with multipathing, failover, and performance. The best practice is to use one protocol per host and array pair. If the host needs to access both FC and iSCSI LUNs from different arrays, then separate vSwitches and port groups should be used for each protocol. References: Dell EMC Unity: Best Practices Guide1, page 19.

When the Schedule Time Zone is changed under the Settings menu, it only affects the display of the time zone and the creation of new snapshot schedules. Existing snapshot schedules are not automatically adjusted to the new time zone, and will continue to run at the same absolute time as before. For example, if a snapshot schedule was created to run every day at 10:00 AM in GMT+1, and the Schedule Time Zone was changed to GMT+2, the snapshot schedule will still run at 10:00 AM in GMT+1, which is 11:00 AM in GMT+2. To update the existing snapshot schedules to the new time zone, the administrator must edit each schedule manually and change the start time accordingly. References: Dell EMC Unity: Snapshots and Thin Clones1, page 16.

A drive partnership group is a collection of drives of the same drive type that have been combined into a hidden dynamic pool object. Each drive within a dynamic pool can only be part of a single drive partnership group, and a drive will never change the drive partnership group. The maximum size of a drive partnership group is 32 drives, regardless of the drive type or size. When expanding a dynamic pool, the system will automatically create new drive partnership groups as needed, and distribute the drives evenly across the groups. The number of drive partnership groups in a dynamic pool is equal to the number of drives divided by 32, rounded up to the nearest integer. References: Dell Unity: Dynamic Pools2, page 5.

Data Reduction is a feature that reduces the amount of physical storage space required to store user data on a LUN. Data Reduction is enabled at the LUN level and applies to all the data in the LUN, including snapshots and thin clones. Data Reduction consists of two components: compression and deduplication. Compression reduces the size of data blocks by removing redundant information, while deduplication eliminates duplicate blocks across the LUN. When Data Reduction is enabled on a LUN, all writes to the LUN will go through the Data Reduction logic before being written to the storage pool. If the LUN is part of a consistency group, Data Reduction will be enabled on all the LUNs in the consistency group, and all writes to any LUN in the group will go through the Data Reduction logic. This ensures that the data in the consistency group is consistent and protected by the same Data Reduction settings. References:

Dell EMC Unity: Data Reduction Overview

Dell EMC Unity: Data Reduction Configuration and Best Practices

The preferred FC Port for synchronous replication for a Dell Unity XT 380 system is Fibre Channel Port 4 of SPA and SPB. This port is dedicated for synchronous replication traffic and has the highest priority and bandwidth allocation. Synchronous replication is a method of replicating data between two Dell Unity systems with zero recovery point objective (RPO). It requires a low-latency and high-bandwidth network connection between the source and destination systems.

To expand a dynamic pool, the number of drives added must be equal to or greater than the stripe width of the pool. The stripe width is the number of data drives plus the number of parity drives in a RAID group. In this case, the stripe width is 12 + 1 = 13. Therefore, the minimum number of drives needed for the pool expansion is 13. References: Dell EMC Unity: Dynamic Pools Technical White Paper1, page 8.

The purpose of a Proxy NAS server is to access snapshot replicas on the destination side of a replicated file resource. A Proxy NAS server is a temporary NAS server that is created on the destination system to mount a snapshot replica of a replicated file system. This allows the user to access the data on the snapshot replica for testing, recovery, or other purposes. A Proxy NAS server does not increase performance or security of production NAS servers, nor does it access snapshots for testing production NAS servers.

VMware datastore is a logical container that holds virtual machine files and other data. There are three types of VMware datastore that can be defined by using UI or CLI interfaces from the Dell Unity XT platform:

vVol (Block): A vVol datastore is a block-based storage object that is formatted with the VMware Virtual Volumes (vVol) framework and used to store virtual machine files and metadata. A vVol datastore can be created by using the Unisphere UI or the UEMCLI interface on the Dell Unity XT system. A vVol datastore can provide granular control, policy-based management, and improved performance for virtual machines.

NFS (File): An NFS datastore is a file-based storage object that is formatted with the Network File System (NFS) protocol and used to store virtual machine files and other data. An NFS datastore can be created by using the Unisphere UI or the UEMCLI interface on the Dell Unity XT system. An NFS datastore can provide scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for virtual machines.

VMFS (Block): A VMFS datastore is a block-based storage object that is formatted with the VMware File System (VMFS) and used to store virtual machine files and other data. A VMFS datastore can be created by using the Unisphere UI or the UEMCLI interface on the Dell Unity XT system. A VMFS datastore can provide high performance, reliability, and compatibility for virtual machines.