A Storage Administrator Needs to Shrink Their FAST Cache on a Dell

question 7

Multiple Choice

A storage administrator needs to shrink their FAST Cache on a Dell EMC Unity XT storage system. The current configuration consists of six 400 GB SAS Flash 2 drives. What is the maximum number of drives that can be removed from FAST Cache through an online shrink operation?

• A) 2
• B) 4
• C) 5
• D) 6

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