BTW, DOWNLOAD part of ExamTorrent FlashArray-Storage-Professional dumps from Cloud Storage: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qqF0YxSObVFYoL-CcfnAusFZQIWTFZGu
Many customers want to check the content and quality of our FlashArray-Storage-Professional exam braindumps. So we develped trial versions for you. After you have used a trial version, you will have an overview of the content of the FlashArray-Storage-Professional simulating exam. This is enough to convince you that this is a product with high quality. If you are sure that you want this product, but we are not sure which version to buy, we can let you try multiple versions of FlashArray-Storage-Professional learning guide. And there are three varied versions on our website.
| Topic | Details |
|---|---|
| Topic 1 |
|
| Topic 2 |
|
| Topic 3 |
|
| Topic 4 |
|
| Topic 5 |
|
>> Reliable FlashArray-Storage-Professional Test Cram <<
The time for FlashArray-Storage-Professional test certification is approaching. If you do not prepare well for the Pure Storage certification, please choose our FlashArray-Storage-Professional exam test engine. You just need to spend 20-30 hours for study and preparation, then confident to attend the actual test. If you have any question about FlashArray-Storage-Professional study pdf, please contact us at any time. The online chat button is at the right bottom of the ExamTorrent page. Besides, we guarantee money refund policy in case of failure.
NEW QUESTION # 11
What is the best practice for configuring VMFS UNMAP for ESXi 6.7 or later?
Answer: A
Explanation:
What is UNMAP?: UNMAP (SCSI command 0x42) is the mechanism that allows a host (like ESXi) to inform the storage array that specific blocks of data are no longer in use (e.g., after a VM is deleted or moved). This is critical for Pure Storage because it allows the array to reclaim that space and maintain high data reduction ratios.
Evolution in ESXi: In versions prior to 6.5, UNMAP was a manual process executed via the CLI. Starting with ESXi 6.7, VMware introduced Automatic Space Reclamation, which runs in the background.
The Pure Storage Recommendation: Pure Storage recommends setting the reclamation priority to Auto with Low Priority.
Low Priority: This ensures that the UNMAP commands are sent to the FlashArray at a steady, manageable rate (roughly up to 25 MB/s to 100 MB/s depending on the Purity version). Because FlashArrays are built on a high-performance metadata engine, "Low Priority" is more than sufficient to keep up with even high-churn environments without causing any contention for active application I/O.
Why avoid High Priority (Option B)?: Setting it to high priority or using a fixed high-burst rate can lead to "bursty" SCSI traffic. While the FlashArray can handle the load, it is considered a best practice to keep background maintenance tasks like space reclamation at a lower priority to ensure the "Big Three" (latency, bandwidth, IOPS) for production workloads remain optimized.
Verification: You can verify that UNMAP is working by looking at the Data Reduction metrics in the Purity GUI or Pure1. If the "Thin Provisioning" or "Reclaimed" numbers are increasing after file deletions, the host is correctly communicating its freed space to the array.
NEW QUESTION # 12
Which command provides the negotiated port speed of an ethernet port?
Answer: A
Explanation:
On a Pure Storage FlashArray, Ethernet ports operate at both a physical hardware layer and a logical network configuration layer. If you need to verify the actual physical negotiated port speed of an Ethernet port (for example, verifying if a 25GbE port negotiated down to 10GbE due to switch configurations or cable limitations), you must query the hardware layer directly.
The command purehw list --all --type eth interacts directly with the physical NIC hardware components to report their true link status, health, and dynamically negotiated hardware link speed.
Here is why the other options are incorrect:
purenetwork eth list -- all (B): The purenetwork command suite is primarily focused on the logical Layer 2/Layer 3 networking stack. It is used to configure and list IP addresses, subnet masks, MTU sizes (Jumbo Frames), and routing, rather than focusing on the physical hardware negotiation details of the NIC itself.
pureport list (A): The pureport command suite is specifically used for managing and viewing storage protocol target ports. An administrator would use this to list the array's Fibre Channel WWNs or iSCSI IQNs to configure host zoning or initiator connections, not to verify Ethernet link negotiation speeds.
NEW QUESTION # 13
In Pure Protect //DRaaS, the administrator modified the business policy used for backups, reducing the "DR Retention" from 7 days to 3 days. The DR target environment currently has 7 days of backups.
What will occur?
Answer: A
Explanation:
Policy-Driven Automation: Pure Protect //DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) is built on a declarative policy engine. When you define a business policy (Protection Group or similar policy-based management), the system's primary goal is to bring the environment into compliance with the "Desired State" defined by that policy.
Retention Enforcement: When the retention period is reduced (e.g., from 7 days down to 3 days), the Purity/Pure Protect engine identifies that any existing snapshots or backups older than the new 3-day threshold are now "out of policy." Immediate Reclamation: Unlike some legacy backup systems that only apply new retention settings to future backups, Pure Storage's policy-driven architecture typically triggers an immediate cleanup of the now-obsolete data to reclaim space on the target. This ensures the environment matches the modified policy requirements immediately upon the policy update.
SafeMode Considerations: If SafeMode is enabled on the target, these "erased" backups will actually move into the "Destroyed" (but not yet eradicated) bucket for the duration of the SafeMode timer, providing a safety net against accidental policy changes or malicious deletions. However, from the perspective of the active DR policy, they are removed.
NEW QUESTION # 14
A storage administrator is troubleshooting a FlashArray that is critically low on space. They have successfully deleted and eradicated a large volume, but used space keeps increasing.
What is a possible cause?
Answer: B
Explanation:
Logical vs. Physical Reclamation: When an administrator "Eradicates" a volume, the FlashArray immediately removes the logical reference to that data. However, the physical blocks are not "wiped" instantly. Instead, those blocks are marked as "eligible for reclamation" by Purity's background Garbage Collection (GC) process.
Workload Prioritization: Purity is designed to prioritize Host I/O (production performance) over background system tasks. If the array is under an extremely high workload (high Load Meter percentage), Purity will automatically throttle the Garbage Collection process to ensure the application latency remains as low as possible.
The "Reclamation Lag": If the incoming write rate from the hosts (new data being written) exceeds the speed at which the throttled GC process can reclaim space from the eradicated volume, the "Used Space" metric will continue to trend upward. This is a common scenario when arrays are pushed to their performance or capacity limits simultaneously.
Why Option A is incorrect: The 24-hour safeguard applies to Destroyed volumes (the "Pending Eradication" bucket). Once an administrator manually clicks Eradicate, that safeguard is bypassed, and the space should logically be freed. If the space is still not reflecting as "Free," it is a back-end processing delay, not a timer delay.
Why Option C is incorrect: In the Purity Operating Environment, the array does not require the host to "unmount" or "disconnect" before it can reclaim space. Once the volume is destroyed and eradicated on the array side, those blocks are gone from the array's perspective, regardless of the host's state (though the host will likely experience I/O errors).
NEW QUESTION # 15
How are in-progress asynchronous snapshot transfers monitored from the UI?
Answer: B
Explanation:
According to official Pure Storage documentation regarding Asynchronous Replication management, while replication throughput (bandwidth) can be viewed globally on the Analysis tab, the actual replication status for in-progress snapshot transfers is tracked and monitored on the replication target.
To monitor an in-progress asynchronous transfer from the GUI, a storage administrator must log into the target FlashArray, navigate to Storage -> Protection Groups, and look at the Transfers section within the Protection Group Snapshots panel. This view explicitly details the time the replicated snapshot was created on the source, the time the transfer started, and the current progress of the snapshot being received. If a transfer is currently in-progress, the "Completed" column will remain blank until the snapshot is fully safely written to the target array.
Here is why the other options are incorrect:
From the replication source (C): While the source orchestrates the creation of the snapshot and initiates the data push, the granular transfer completion status and historical transfer logs of the incoming snapshots are tracked on the target's Protection Group interface.
From the either the replication source or target (B): Because the specific "Transfers" tracking panel for asynchronous protection group snapshots is located on the receiving end (target), monitoring the granular completion status cannot be done symmetrically from either side in the UI.
NEW QUESTION # 16
......
Desktop-based practice exam software FlashArray-Storage-Professional is the first format that ExamTorrent provides to its customers. It helps track the progress of the candidate from beginning to end and provides a progress report that is easily accessible. This Pure Storage FlashArray-Storage-Professional Practice Questions is customizable and mimics the real exam, with the same format, and is easy to use on Windows-based computers. The product support staff is available to assist with any issues that may arise.
FlashArray-Storage-Professional Free Study Material: https://www.examtorrent.com/FlashArray-Storage-Professional-valid-vce-dumps.html
What's more, part of that ExamTorrent FlashArray-Storage-Professional dumps now are free: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qqF0YxSObVFYoL-CcfnAusFZQIWTFZGu