D-PST-DS-00: Dell PowerStore DesignDemo

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Solution Design

A customer wants to design a solution supporting these workloads:

  • VMware datastores for 80 Windows and Linux VMs
  • A home-directory share for 1,500 users (SMB)
  • A Linux engineering share accessed through NFS
  • A requirement to simplify management while maintaining clear separation between file workloads for security and administration
  • A preference to reuse the existing 16 Gb FC for the VMware clusters

Which design is simplest to manage, lowest in cost, and meets all their requirements?

  • A Create a configuration that utilizes block volumes only; SMB/NFS shares can be created directly from the ESXi and Linux hosts.
  • B Create a configuration that utilizes NFS and SMB only; SMB for home directories, and NFS for the datastores.
  • C Create a configuration that separates the SMB, NFS, and block workloads, thereby utilizing PowerStore's unified capabilities.
  • D Create a configuration that utilizes PowerStore for the block workload and PowerScale for the file workload.
Explanation

A unified PowerStore configuration provides Fibre Channel block volumes for VMware datastores and native NAS services for SMB and NFS. Keeping the SMB, NFS, and block workloads separate within PowerStore maintains the required security and administrative boundaries while using a single platform, which reduces cost and management overhead compared with a separate PowerScale file platform.

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