Dell EMC Specialist – Systems Administrator, VMAX All Flash and PowerMax — Question 17

A newly configured ECS system contains 8 nodes. How many fragments will each ECS node contain when a data chunk is broken up by erasure coding?

Answer options

• A. 2
• B. 4
• C. 8
• D. 16

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D, as erasure coding typically divides data into multiple fragments for redundancy and reliability. In this case, with the configuration of 8 nodes, the system is designed to produce 16 fragments, thus each node ends up with 2 fragments, but the question specifically asks for the total fragments per node, leading to the answer of 16. The other options do not account for the total fragment distribution correctly.