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95 Cards in this Set
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What is a U? |
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Server rack unit of measurement |
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How many inches is a U? |
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1.75" |
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Sizes servers rack mount servers usually come in? |
1U, 2U, 4U, 5U
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How many U's are in a rack? |
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42 U's |
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What do you need to do when moving a rack? |
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Empty it |
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What's a KVM? |
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Keyboard Video Monitor switch |
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What does a KVM do? |
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It swiches keyboard, video and monitor between multiple comupters |
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Three server form factors |
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Pedistal, rack mountable and blade |
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How many U's is a typical blade server? |
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3U's |
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What is a name for a blade server enclosure? |
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Blade center |
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What do blade servers plug into in a blade enclosure |
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backplane |
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What's the % of cable reduction in a blade center |
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90% |
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What environments are blade servers suited to |
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Tier1 and tier2 environments such as email, web, directory, firewalls, etc |
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What are blade servers not suited for |
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Tier3 environments such as databse servers |
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What are the 3 main types of servers |
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General-purpose, appliance and multi-tier |
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What are the three sub-catagories of multi-tier servers |
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Front-end, mid-tier and back-end |
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What is Redundancy |
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The practice of devoting extra hardware to maintain fault tolerance |
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What are general purpose servers intended for (3 examples) |
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Provide a wide variety of services (file, print, web) |
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What are appliance servers do |
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Provide single or multiple services |
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How is an appliance server treated? |
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As an FRU |
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Install what 4 components on the MB before mounting the MB in the chassis? |
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Heatsink retainer braket Heatsink Processor Memory modules |
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Where should you mount a video card? |
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Slot 1 |
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SSD |
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Solid State Disk |
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When do most faulty electronic equipment fail |
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In the first 72 hours |
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CPU Expansion Bus speed |
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The speed the PCI bus can run at |
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What is a SCSI bus width measured in? |
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Bits |
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What is SCSI throughput measured in? |
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Megabytes/second |
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What is the clock, bus width and transfer rate of SCSI-1? |
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5Mhz, 8bit, 5MB/s |
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What is the clock, bus width and transfer rate of Fast SCSI? |
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10Mhz, 8bit, 10MB/s |
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What is the clock, bus width and transfer rate of Fast-Wide SCSI? |
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10Mhz, 8bit, 20MB/s |
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What is the clock, bus width and transfer rate of Ultra SCSI? |
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20Mhz, 8bit, 20MB/s |
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What is the clock, bus width and transfer rate of Ultra Wide SCSI? |
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20Mhz, 16bit, 40MB/s |
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What is the clock, bus width and transfer rate of Ultra2 SCSI? |
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40Mhz, 8bit, 40MB/s |
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What is the clock, bus width and transfer rate of Ultra2 Wide SCSI? |
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40*2Mhz, 16bit, 80MB/s |
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What is the clock, bus width and transfer rate of Ultra3 SCSI? |
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40*2Mhz, 8bit, 80MB/s |
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What is the clock, bus width and transfer rate of Ultra3 Wide SCSI? |
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40*2Mhz, 16bit, 160MB/s |
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Can different SCSI technologies be mixed on a computer? |
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Yes |
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CPU Expansion bus speed describes what? |
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PCI bus speed |
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When is a HDD assigned a drive letter? |
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When FDisk is performed |
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What are 2 true things about hard partitioning? |
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It's the same as DOS partitiong The disk is physclly divided |
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Number of devices with Ultra SCSI? |
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8 |
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Number of devices with Ultra SCSI? |
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16 |
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3 different pinouts for SCSI devices |
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50, 68, 80 |
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What are 3 aspects of server maintenance? |
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Hardware Software Networking |
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Who developed SNMP |
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The Internet Engineering Task Force |
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What's the most important software on a server? |
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Antivirus software |
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What should you do if you receive a substitute part? |
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Return it |
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What performs the WOL remote boot? |
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Magic Packet (PXE does WOL too) |
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What are 4 causes of ESD? |
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Low Humidity, Unshielded cables, Improper grounding and people moving around |
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How many devices can you have on a SCSI-3 RAID 5 controller? Dual Channel? |
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15 30 |
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What is a UPS' rating measured in? |
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Volt-Ampere or VA |
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HBA? How do you configure for multiple OS's |
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Host Bus Adapter Configure server with HBA manufacturer's drivers |
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How do you setup multiple processors on a Server? (2) |
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Install processor Configure NOS |
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When should you upgrade the server's BIOS? |
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When doing a major upgrades such as faster processors |
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When is SNMP loaded onto the system? |
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Before the NOS and any networking |
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At what 2 voltages do universal 32-bit PCI cards run at? |
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3.3v and 5v |
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What RAID system protects against 2 drives failing at the same time? |
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RAID 1+0 |
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What term is used for processor revisions |
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Stepping |
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What do you call a PCI card that can be Hot Swapped? |
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Hot-Plug PCI |
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What do you check when you hear POST error codes? |
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POST card error codes |
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How can you tell the MB through put of a PCI bus |
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Bytes x clock cycle |
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NAS |
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Network Area Storage |
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SAN |
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Storage Area Network |
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What's the major difference between a SAN and a NAS |
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The data addressing scheme |
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What is SNMP used for? |
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Device management via hardware signals |
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When is SNMP started on a system and by what? |
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Before the NOS, by the MBR |
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What kind of protocol is SNMP? |
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Message based protocol |
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What are SNMP server management consoles often called? |
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Enterprise Management Consoles |
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MIB |
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Management Information Base |
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What is a MIB |
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SNMP Database |
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What are the 3 basic components in the SNMP model? |
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Managed Devices Agents Network Management System NMS |
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NMS |
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Network Management System |
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What are Managed Devices? What do they do? (2) |
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-Devices that contain an SNMP agent -Collect/store info and Make it availabe to the NMS |
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What are Agents? What do they do? (2) |
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-Software modules that interpret info for the NMS and make it SNMP-compatible |
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What is the NMS? |
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Software that monitors and controls network devices through their SNMP agents |
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What is SNMP used for? |
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It is used to monitor and control network devices and servers |
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What port do SNMP Traps use? |
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162 |
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What port do SNMP Events use? |
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161 |
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SNMP Community |
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A logical group with relationships btwn an agent and one or more SNMP managers |
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What's SNMP's main security weakness |
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It tranfers data in clear text ASCII. |
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What format does SNMP transfer data in? |
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ASCII |
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What are 3 added features in SNMPv2? |
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-New trap format -Trap transfer from one NMS to another -Partial bulk data transfer |
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What are 2 added features in SNMPv3? |
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-Added security -remote configuration |
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DMI |
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Desktop Management Interface - A specification to replace SNMP |
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MIF |
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-Mangement Information Format. -DMI text files |
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HIPPI |
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High Performance Parallel Interface |
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SCSI |
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Small Computer System Interface |
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Fibre Channel |
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A high performance HDD and transfer interface |
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Common Channel Protocols |
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HPPI and SCSI |
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Fibre Channel distance limits (copper/fiber) |
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Copper: 30 meters Fiber: 10 kilometers |
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Fibre Channel: # of drives |
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126 |
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Fibre Channel: speed |
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100MBps |
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Fibre Channel: Redundancy |
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CRC protected frames |
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Fibre Channel: Interface (versions) |
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Single version |
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DAS |
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Direct Attached Storage |