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An architect is assisting with designing the storage network for a new FlashArray//X70R4. The FlashArray is going to be used to replace an aging iSCSI array to provide storage for their VMware environment. The organization wants the best possible performance from their environment, however, they have a limited budget so do NOT want to purchase any additional equipment or training. Which storage network technology should the architect use to meet the organization’s requirements?

A large manufacturing company’s primary data center is located at their head office location. The data center consists of a VMware vCenter environment and numerous ESXi hosts with storage provided by a FlashArray//X70. Their manufacturing plant location has a small number of virtual machines which need to run locally to control the on-site robots and machinery. These virtual machines use vVols storage provided by a FlashArray//X20 and are managed by a local vCenter appliance. The company wants to protect the manufacturing plant virtual machines by replicating them to the head office data center.   What should the architect recommend to replicate the virtual machines to the head office at the lowest cost?

An architect is designing an ActiveCluster solution for a large media company. The company has two sites which are connected with a replication link with a latency of

A Network Operations Centre (NOC) is responsible for validating the severity of alerts and logs. They want to have the minimal access permissions to enable/disable remote assistance on the array. Which role should the NOC be granted?

An architect is preparing power and cabling requirements for the data center manager for a new install of FlashArray//XL and FlashBlade//S chassis. Which requirements should the architect send to the data center manager?

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A trading company has implemented a cloud based observability platform to enhance monitoring and alerting for their infrastructure. The company has the goal to proactively identify anomalies and improve collaboration during investigations. They are successfully scraping real-time metrics from all components of their critical trading service. This includes the front-end application and marketing analysis, to the back-end networks and storage arrays. These metrics have been scraping successfully from all components for the last 14 days. Which action should the architect recommend next?

An organization requires all replication data between FlashArrays to be encrypted in transit.  What should an architect advise the organization to meet this requirement?

An architect is designing a Fibre Channel storage network for a FlashArray. It is important that during events, such as a controller reboot, hosts do NOT suffer from permanent path loss. Which action should the architect take to meet this requirement?

An architect is implementing an archive document solution using FlashBlade Object Store. The solution must ensure that all versions of the documents are available within this mission critical application. Users must be able to download, modify, and upload documents at all times. How should the architect meet this requirement?