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A potential customer provides their estimated annual data growth at 30%, current data storage utilization at 200 TB out of 300 TB total capacity, and a data reduction rate of 1.5:1 due to compression technologies. They need to architect a solution that takes into consideration local data protection. How should a FlashBlade configuration be planned to meet the storage needs for the next three years?

A financial services company is using a competitor’s long-term archive solution for regulatory compliance and is looking to copy a large number of records from a S3-compatible object store over to FlashBlade. They have stated that their old system is using spinning disk and is primarily used for deep archive, and they rarely access the data until needed.   The customer has the following requirements for archived data: 5 years of data retention Data size: 4.5 PB Ability to make version changes Protect data against ransomware attacks Ensure no one can erase the data once retention mode is set   Which system would an SE recommend to meet these requirements with FlashBlade?

A financial services company is planning to migrate its data analytics platform to FlashBlade, using FlashBlade//S as the primary and FlashBlade//E as the archiver. Estimated data reduction rate: 1.3:1 Starting raw capacity: 300 TB Expected annual data growth rate: 20% Solution should include enough storage for three years Will require daily snapshots Will require replication to a secondary site What is the required raw capacity of FlashBlade//S to meet the company’s needs for the next three years?

The term “bottom time” refers to:

Refer to the exhibit. During a FlashBlade design session with a prospective customer, this network design is provided by the network team. Why is this network design invalid?

An architect is asked to design a topology for a customer that has two FlashBlade//S systems—Site A in New York, US, and Site B in Frankfurt, Germany—and an additional S3-compatible cloud storage provider. Their requirements are:Applications will write to both FlashBlades.Replication should ensure data consistency across sites.The latest object versions should be pushed to the cloud provider for long-term retention.Object Lock must be applied for compliance and retention enforcement. Which design approach should the SE recommend?

An SE is assisting a customer size a FlashBlade for multiple-use cases:ApplicationRead PerformanceWrite PerformanceApplication WindowNumber of HostsBackup40Gb/s120Gb/s19:00-05:004AI200Gb/s40Gb/s00:00-23:59200Streaming Analytics180Gb/s120Gb/s07:00-18:0018Log Server40Gb/s80Gb/s00:00-23:595Virtualization120Gb/s80Gb/s00:00-23:5912 What is the minimum number of 100Gb/s External Fabric Module uplinks that the SE should size for?

A retail customer is developing an application to train an AI algorithm using purchase transaction metadata. The requirements include: Handling billions of transactions per hourSupporting hundreds of thousands of clientsCapability to easily connect and disconnect from multiple network locationsUtilizing asymmetric encryption across a wide area network (WAN)Maintaining resilience to network latency Which protocol supported by FlashBlade is ideal for this use case?

A customer wants to purchase a FlashBlade that has performance built around a high workload data set sized at 600 GB. They have an additional 2.7 PB of data that does not require the same level of performance but does require the same protocols.   Which option should the SE propose?

A custom application leaves a set of small text and image files in temporary directories. A process periodically deletes the temporary directories which contains millions of files. Which FlashBlade feature should the SE recommend to improve deletion performance?