DELL EMC D-PST-OE-23 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 21,2026- Exam Code: D-PST-OE-23
- Exam Name: Dell PowerStore Operate 2023 Exam
- Certification Provider: DELL EMC
- Latest update: Oct 21,2026
Which are two features of VMware Virtual Volumes? (Select 2)
- A . Stored in storage containers that are created in the storage system
- B . Require vSphere 5.0 at a minimum to run
- C . Storage objects that the storage administrator creates manually
- D . Supports snapshots at the VM level
A system engineer must provision one storage pool to include 14 Extreme Performance Drives, 6 Performance Drives, and 9 Capacity Drives. During the creation process in Unisphere, they notice that the Performance Tier is grayed out and shows only two unused drives.
What is the cause of this issue?
- A . Drive Firmware must be updated.
- B . Unity Management Software requires a refresh.
- C . Drives must be reseated.
- D . System drives are not allowed in the storage pool.
A company needs to expand their dynamic pool by 10 TB. The current dynamic pool consists of sixty-three 7.6 TB SSD drives that are configured for RAID 5 (12+1).
What is the minimum number of drives needed for the pool expansion?
- A . 2
- B . 13
- C . 1
- D . 15
What are two recommendations for configuring synchronous replication on a Dell Unity XT system? (Select 2)
- A . Session RPO must be set to zero
- B . Dataset to be less than 100 TB
- C . Latency below 10 milliseconds
- D . A maximum of 100 km (60 mi) distance
Refer to the exhibit.
Which two MD5 authentication mechanisms does the configuration support?
A storage administrator attempts to restart the Management Server to resolve Unisphere issues, but is unable to do so.
What is the cause of this issue?
- A . SP is in Maintenance mode.
- B . Only one SP is in Service mode.
- C . SP is in Reset and Hold mode
- D . Both SPs are in Service mode
What is a characteristic of FAST VP?
- A . Users can enable or disable FAST VP at the LUN level
- B . Once enabled, FAST VP data relocation runs in background at all times
- C . FAST VP optimizes data placement by moving 1 GB slices between disk tiers.
- D . Users can set the FAST VP data relocation rate.
What is the role of protocol endpoints in Dell Unity XT VMware storage provisioning?
- A . Establish a data path between the ESXi host and the respective vVol datastores.
- B . Provide a write consistent view to the host when accessing multiple VMware datastores.
- C . Manage host IO workload balance between multiple paths to the VMware datastores.
- D . Enable polarized host connectivity on a VMware stretched cluster environment.
A storage administrator wants to expand the current FAST Cache size from 1.2 TB to the maximum allowed size on a Dell Unity XT 880.
How many 400 GB Flash 2 drives do they need to add?
- A . 24
- B . 12
- C . 5
- D . 10
A storage administrator is having difficulty troubleshooting a Dell Unity XT storage system and contacts the Dell support for assistance. Dell support must run some service commands on the Storage Processors to troubleshoot the issue further.
What step must be taken to ensure that Dell support has remote access to the storage system?
- A . Set Unisphere preferences to Optimize for remote access
- B . Specify the Remote Logging configuration.
- C . Enable Service mode on the Storage Processors
- D . Enable SSH on the storage system.