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A customer has deployed a single chassis FlashBlade//S system with the maximum number of blades. Bays 1, 2, and 3 on all blades are populated with 24 TB DFMs. Additional workload requires the customer to deploy 220 TB of additional capacity, but costs are to be minimized. Which configuration fulfills these requirements?

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A customer has two sites that use NFS exports on their FlashBlade//S. The production site is taking daily snapshots and replicating to the secondary site.   The details on the customer production site are as follows: 200 TB used capacity in the production site. Snapshots are scheduled to complete hourly, and one snapshot is retained per day for 14 days. Unique snapshot size is roughly 10 TB per day. How much capacity is consumed on the secondary array?

SafeMode is enabled on a customer’s FlashBlade S200 system. Due to an unexpected event, the system is running out of space and the customer needs to delete a snapshot. After deletion, the customer is unable to eradicate the snapshot to recover the space. The SE advises the customer to engage Pure Support who, after verifying at least 2 Named Admins, asks the customer for a token to enable SafeMode modification. How does the customer generate the token?

What benefit does DirectFlash have over SSDs regarding the FTL?

An SE is tasked with designing a remote replication solution for a company that relies heavily on real-time data access to its filesystems using FlashBlade. The primary site is located in New York and the backup site is in California. Considering the high latency inherent in such long-distance communications, which replication strategy should the SE choose to make sure of minimal impact on system performance?

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A customer needs to upgrade the raw capacity of their 1PB FlashBlade//S configured with: 7 blades, each with three 48TB Direct Flash Modules (DFMs) What options would be acceptable to upgrade the capacity 500TB with minimal cost?

A global enterprise wants to design an S3 object replication strategy that includes disaster recovery testing without disrupting production data or configurations. How can the FlashBlade be configured to support this requirement?

A customer has a FlashBlade//S200 and a FlashBlade//E that are used for backup with Veeam. The FlashBlade//S200 is the primary backup target, while the FlashBlade//E is used for long-term data retention. They do three backups: month-end for monthly retention, weekly full backups on Saturdays, and daily incremental backups. The SE is asked how much usable capacity will be needed for the FlashBlade//S200 for 30-day retention from the following: Backup size: 100 TB5% change rate: Incremental and full backupsCompression rate: 1.5 to 1 How much usable capacity will the SE need on the FlashBlade//S200 for the 30-day retention?