CompTIA CASP+ (CAS-002) — Question 8

Company ABCs SAN is nearing capacity, and will cause costly downtimes if servers run out disk space. Which of the following is a more cost effective alternative to buying a new SAN?

Answer options

• A. Enable multipath to increase availability
• B. Enable deduplication on the storage pools
• C. Implement snapshots to reduce virtual disk size
• D. Implement replication to offsite datacenter

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Enabling deduplication on the storage pools helps to reduce the amount of redundant data stored, effectively increasing available disk space without the need for additional hardware. The other options, while beneficial for availability and data protection, do not directly address the issue of increasing storage capacity in a cost-effective manner.