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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== vExpert Game Show ==<br /> <br /> Presented on Monday<br /> <br /> Fun and entertaining presentation<br /> <br /> Between the VMware vExperts and Pure Storage team<br /> <br /> Twitter: #vExpertGameShow<br /> <br /> Sample Questions:<br /> <br /> SLC vs MLC, which is more expensive: SLC<br /> <br /> Average i/o size of Pure&#039;s install base: 56KB (think ioBlender)<br /> <br /> VSAN Fault Tolerance default: FTT=1, should do FTT=2<br /> <br /> Name of returned by inquery command (NAA ID, vendor, mode, etc): VPD (Virtual Product Data)<br /> <br /> Flash Reduce - data technologies: inline pattern removal, inline 512 byte dedup, inline compression, copy reduction, post process deep reduction<br /> <br /> VSAN RAID 0 vs Pass Through: Pass Through is recommended<br /> <br /> Fiber channel topologies: loop, fabric, point to point<br /> <br /> Does Pure Storage support VMFS shrinking?: No, able to resize, but not shrink<br /> <br /> VSAN read cache to write buffer default in flash accel layer: 70% read to 30% write<br /> <br /> RAID 4 vs RAID 5: RAID 5 has distributed parity<br /> <br /> VAAI block primities (purity OE 4.0): xcopy, ats, block zero, block unmap<br /> <br /> VSAN stripe size: 1MB<br /> <br /> First 5 1/2&quot; HDD: Segate 5MB in 1980</div>

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