NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer – NVMe — Question 40

You have a new 2-node FAS8700 ONTAP 9.8 cluster. One of the nodes has 24x16 TB NL-SAS disks assigned and available for a new aggregate. You created the aggregate with one RAID group and two spare disks.
In this scenario, how many data drives are in the aggregate?

Answer options

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The aggregate consists of 24 disks, and with 2 disks set aside as spares, there are 24 - 2 = 22 disks available for use. However, in a RAID group, a certain number of disks are used for parity. In this case, the calculation reveals that 19 disks are allocated as data drives, making option D the correct choice, while the other options do not account for the RAID structure correctly.