An Isilon Customer Is Reporting Less Than Expected Performance from the Cluster

question 203

Multiple Choice

An Isilon customer is reporting less than expected performance from the cluster and poor space utilization. The customer is using three X400 nodes with N+2:1 protection policy to host webserver log data. Upon further analysis, it is discovered that the webservers write log files 64 KiB in size. The log files are then accessed by an analytics application for reporting. What should be done to increase write performance of the cluster?

• A) Change the protection scheme to a mirroring policy.
• B) Add A-Series performance accelerator nodes to the cluster.
• C) Add S-Series storage nodes to the cluster.
• D) Add SSDs to the X-Series nodes in the cluster.

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