Huawei H13-624_V5.5 HCIP-Storage V5.5 Exam Practice Test

The integrated I/O stack in Huawei flash storage systems, such as OceanStor Dorado, is divided into layers, with the space management layer handling metadata and resource allocation. The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 5: Storage System Maintenance and Troubleshooting)* states: “The space management layer is responsible for metadata operations and space allocation. Key performance concerns include the cache hit ratio of hot metadata, which affects access speed, and CPU usage for background metadata management tasks, which impacts system efficiency.” Let’s evaluate:

- Option A: Correct. The material confirms that the cache hit ratio for hot metadata is critical for reducing latency in the space management layer.

- Option B: Correct. High CPU usage in metadata management can bottleneck performance, as noted in the material.

- Option C: Incorrect. Failover for protocol receiving threads is a concern for the data service layer, not the space management layer.

- Option D: Incorrect. The prefetch algorithm’s hit ratio is relevant to the data service layer, not space management.

Thus, options A and B are the performance concerns.

This question addresses the behavior of remote replication consistency groups in Huawei storage systems, such as OceanStor Dorado or Pacific series. According to the *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 4: Storage Design and Implementation)*, a consistency group ensures that multiple remote replication tasks operate as a single unit to maintain data consistency across LUNs or volumes. The material states: “In a remote replication consistency group, if one replication task fails (e.g., due to a link failure or configuration issue), the entire consistency group is affected, and other tasks do not continue running normally. The system suspends all tasks in the group to preserve data consistency until the faulty task is resolved or manually split.” This ensures that dependent data sets remain synchronized. Therefore, the statement that other tasks run normally without waiting for the faulty task is false, as the consistency group halts all tasks to maintain integrity.

The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 5: Storage System Maintenance and Troubleshooting)* outlines troubleshooting principles: “Basic troubleshooting principles include prioritizing high-severity alarms, analyzing external factors (e.g., network or host issues) before internal storage issues, and addressing network alarms before network element (NE) alarms to rule out connectivity issues.” Let’s evaluate:

- Option A: Correct principle. Network alarms are analyzed first to exclude external connectivity issues.

- Option B: Not a principle. The material does not prioritize general alarms over specific ones; it focuses on severity and context.

- Option C: Correct principle. Higher-severity alarms are addressed first to mitigate critical issues.

- Option D: Correct principle. External factors are checked before internal storage issues.

Thus, option B is not a basic troubleshooting principle.

This question tests knowledge of the Huawei OceanStor Dorado series architecture, as covered in the *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 2: Flash Storage Technologies)*. Let’s evaluate each option:

- Option A: True. The material confirms: “The back-end shared interface module of OceanStor Dorado 18000 is inserted into the enclosure, allowing simultaneous access to disk enclosures by all controllers in the engine.”

- Option B: True. The material states: “Dorado V6 series and converged storage products adopt the PCIe Scale-Out architecture for high-performance interconnects.”

- Option C: False. The material specifies: “OceanStor Dorado 18000 uses 100 Gbit/s RDMA shared interface modules for cross-engine expansion, supporting full interconnection between 8, 12, and 16 controllers.” The claim of 200 Gbit/s RDMA is incorrect, as 100 Gbit/s is the standard for Dorado 18000.

- Option D: True. The material notes: “OceanStor Dorado 18000 supports up to 28 interface modules and uses a 100 Gbit/s RDMA network for intra-engine mirroring and cross-engine interconnection.”

Thus, option C is false due to the incorrect RDMA speed.

The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 5: Storage System Maintenance and Troubleshooting)* addresses controller faults in Huawei flash storage systems, such as OceanStor Dorado: “A faulty controller is a critical issue that requires immediate attention, as it can impact system performance, redundancy, or availability. Even if the fault is common (e.g., a single controller failure in a dual-controller setup), emergency handling is necessary to replace the controller and restore full redundancy to prevent potential service disruptions.” The statement that no emergency handling is needed is false, as controller faults always warrant prompt action to ensure system reliability.

The SmartEncryption feature in Huawei OceanStor Pacific ensures data security. The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 3: Scale-Out Storage Technologies)* explains:

- Option A: True. “For DPC or NFS reads, self-encrypting disks (SEDs) retrieve authentication keys from the key management server, decrypt ciphertext, and return plaintext to the protocol layer.”

- Option B: True. “SmartEncryption supports encrypted writes and decrypted reads via NFS, CIFS, HDFS, and S3 protocols.”

- Option C: False. “SmartEncryption encrypts data at the storage layer. Clients using NFS, CIFS, or DPC write data that is automatically encrypted by the system before storage, not written as plaintext.”

- Option D: True. “OceanStor Pacific uses SEDs for disk-level encryption, ensuring all service data is encrypted.”

Thus, option C is false.

The deployment of Huawei OceanStor Pacific series involves hardware and software setup. The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 5: Storage System Maintenance and Troubleshooting)* explains:

- Option A: False. The material states: “Network initialization for nodes during software deployment can be performed via DeviceManager, the CLI, or the Storage Deployment Tool (SDT), but DeviceManager is not mandatory.” This makes the statement incorrect.

- Option B: True. “SmartKit supports batch OS installation for hardware deployment.”

- Option C: True. “SmartKit can configure clusters, including disabling LLDP and enabling BMC mobile customization.”

- Option D: True. “SmartKit is used to configure BMC settings and verify firmware, OS, and driver versions.”

Thus, option A is false.

This question tests knowledge of disk status indicators in Huawei OceanStor Pacific 9950 systems. The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 5: Storage System Maintenance and Troubleshooting)* provides details on disk module indicators: “A steady yellow location indicator on a main storage disk module indicates that the disk is faulty or about to fail. This status signals that the disk requires attention, such as replacement, to prevent data loss or service disruption.” The material further clarifies the following for other options:

- Option A: Incorrect. A blinking yellow indicator, not a steady one, typically indicates that the disk is being located (e.g., via DeviceManager or CLI).

- Option B: Incorrect. A steady green indicator signifies that the disk is running properly.

- Option C: Incorrect. A powered-off disk would have no indicator light or a specific power-off signal, not a steady yellow light.

Thus, option D accurately describes the disk’s status.

The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 5: Storage System Maintenance and Troubleshooting)* describes user roles in Huawei flash storage systems: “The administrator role is a built-in role with full privileges, including managing users, performing system upgrades, changing the system time, powering off the device, and restarting the device.” This role is designed for comprehensive system management, confirming that the statement is true.

The Huawei Ocean Protect Appliance leverages CPU core grouping and intelligent scheduling to optimize performance, as described in the *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 2: Flash Storage Technologies)*. The material states: “CPU core grouping and intelligent scheduling in Ocean Protect appliances enable physical and logical isolation of resources, ensuring that specific cores are dedicated to specific tasks. This isolation reduces contention and minimizes latency for critical operations.” This directly supports option C, as the technology’s primary advantage is reducing latency through resource isolation.

- Option A: Incorrect. While load balancing is a feature of some Huawei storage systems, the training material does not specify that CPU core grouping and intelligent scheduling in Ocean Protect appliances focus on distributing jobs for load balancing. Instead, it emphasizes resource isolation.

- Option B: Incorrect. The material indicates that this technology prevents core overload by isolating tasks, avoiding high latency, making this statement false.

- Option D: Incorrect. Prefetching data and metadata to improve cache hit ratios is unrelated to CPU core grouping and scheduling, which focus on processor resource management, not cache operations.

Thus, option C is the correct advantage of this technology.

The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 5: Storage System Maintenance and Troubleshooting)* addresses performance issue demarcation: “If the latency on the compute side is significantly higher than on the storage side, the issue is likely outside the storage system, such as in the host, network, or application layer. If the storage side showed high latency (e.g., due to disk performance limits), it would be reflected in the STORAGE metrics.” The statement incorrectly attributes the issue to the storage system, as higher compute-side latency points to external factors, making it false.

The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 5: Storage System Maintenance and Troubleshooting)* details management tools:

- Option A: False. “SmartKit is used for hardware inspection, OS installation, and firmware upgrades, but it does not provide alarm reporting, file upload, or remote access capabilities.”

- Option B: True. “DeviceManager supports resource allocation, user management, data protection, performance monitoring, and alarm management.”

- Option C: True. “DME IQ provides cloud-based management, remote maintenance, and predictive analytics.”

- Option D: True. “The CLI supports all listed functions, including resource allocation and alarm management.”

Thus, option A is false.

The HyperMetro feature in Huawei storage systems, such as OceanStor Dorado, provides active-active data access with arbitration mechanisms to handle site failures. The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 4: Storage Design and Implementation)* details HyperMetro arbitration modes:

- Option A: True. The material states: “In the absence of a quorum server, HyperMetro operates in static priority mode, where the preferred site is designated to win arbitration and continue services during a failure.”

- Option B: True. The material explains: “In static priority mode, if the preferred site fails, the non-preferred site does not automatically take over to avoid split-brain scenarios. Services stop, and manual intervention is required to forcibly start services on the non-preferred site.”

- Option C: False. The material clarifies: “In quorum server mode, the quorum server can be deployed on physical machines or virtual machines, provided it meets the performance and network requirements.” This makes the statement that it can only be deployed on physical machines incorrect.

- Option D: True. The material confirms: “In quorum server mode, if the link between storage systems fails, both systems send arbitration requests to the quorum server to determine which site continues providing services.”

Thus, option C is false.

The HyperSnap feature in Huawei flash storage systems, such as OceanStor Dorado, enables point-in-time snapshots for data protection. The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 2: Flash Storage Technologies)* states: “To create snapshots using HyperSnap, the storage pool containing the source LUNs must have sufficient available capacity to store snapshot metadata and copy-on-write (COW) data. If the storage pool lacks free space, snapshot creation for a protection group will fail.” This aligns with the question’s statement that a lack of available capacity in the storage pool prevents snapshot creation for a protection group, making the statement true. The material emphasizes that capacity issues are a common cause of snapshot failures, as snapshots require additional space for incremental changes.

Changing the management network port IP in Huawei flash storage systems is a common initialization task. The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 5: Storage System Maintenance and Troubleshooting)* states:

- Option A: False. “The CLI command to change the management IP is ‘change system management_ip_address,’ not ‘change system management_ip.’”

- Option B: True. “Management and maintenance network ports must use different network segments to avoid routing conflicts.”

- _Index C: False. “No license is required to change the management network port IP address; it is a basic configuration task.”

- Option D: True. “For serial port login, the maintenance terminal’s IP and the default management IP must be in the same segment to establish connectivity.”

Thus, options A and C are false.

The question focuses on the client access modes supported by Huawei OceanStor Pacific series storage systems, particularly for parallel access scenarios. The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 3: Scale-Out Storage Technologies)* explains: “The OceanStor Pacific series supports the NFS (Network File System) client access mode, which enables a single client to connect to multiple storage nodes for parallel data access. This mode is optimized for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads and supports MPI-I/O (Message Passing Interface Input/Output) for distributed applications.” NFS allows clients to access file systems across multiple nodes, facilitating scalable and parallel I/O operations, which aligns with the question’s description. The acronym “NFS” is the correct answer.

The statement describes the reliability mechanism of Huawei’s scale-out storage systems, such as the OceanStor Pacific series, which employ cabinet-level security to enhance data availability. According to the *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 3: Scale-Out Storage Technologies)*, scale-out storage systems use distributed architectures with N data blocks and M parity blocks stored across different cabinets to ensure redundancy. This design leverages erasure coding (EC) or similar mechanisms to tolerate faults. The material explicitly states: “In a scale-out storage system, N+M redundancy ensures that if up to M nodes or M disks fail, the system can reconstruct data without interruption or loss. However, if M cabinets fail, the system may lose the ability to access sufficient parity or data blocks, potentially interrupting services.” This confirms that the system can handle M node or disk failures without issue, but M cabinet failures may disrupt services due to the loss of distributed data or parity blocks. Therefore, the statement is true.

Syslog configuration in Huawei flash storage systems enables alarm and event logging. The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 5: Storage System Maintenance and Troubleshooting)* explains:

- Option A: False. “Syslog configuration does not require SNMP or USM user setup, as Syslog operates independently for log forwarding.”

- Option B: True. “The ‘show notification syslog’ command displays the Syslog configuration, including content format.”

- Option C: True. “The ‘change syslog-notification format_type=cef’ command sets the Syslog format to Common Event Format (CEF).”

- Option D: False. “If the Syslog server uses certificates, the storage system must import the server’s CA certificate to establish secure communication.”

Thus, options A and D are false.

The SmartMigration feature in Huawei OceanStor Pacific enables data migration between storage resources. The *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 4: Storage Design and Implementation)* explains: “The split mode and migration rate of a SmartMigration task can be modified only when the task is in certain statuses, such as Interrupted, Paused, or Faulty. When the task is in the Migrating status, changes to split mode or migration rate are not allowed, as the system is actively transferring data.” This is because modifying parameters during active migration could disrupt the process or cause data inconsistency. Let’s evaluate:

- Option A: Interrupted allows changes, as the task is stopped.

- Option B: Paused allows changes, as the task is temporarily halted.

- Option C: Faulty allows changes, as the task is not actively running.

- Option D: Migrating does not allow changes, as the task is in progress.

Thus, option D is the status that prevents changes.

The software installation process for Huawei OceanStor Pacific scale-out storage systems is detailed in the *HCIP-Storage V5.5 Training Material (Module 3: Scale-Out Storage Technologies)*. Let’s evaluate each option:

- Option A: True. The material states: “For block service installation with converged compute and storage nodes, each node requires at least 20 vCPUs to support management and data processing tasks.”

- Option B: True. The material confirms: “In converged deployments, the disk quantity difference between any two nodes in a storage pool must not exceed 2 or 30% of the disk count on the node with the most disks to ensure balanced performance.”

- Option C: False. The material explains: “Wizard-based software installation automates node addition, network configuration, and control cluster creation via DeviceManager, reducing manual steps. Engineers do not need to perform these tasks manually before installing the OceanStor Pacific software.” This makes the statement incorrect.

- Option D: True. The material notes: “DPC installation requires a minimum of 20 GB of memory on compute nodes to ensure stable operation.”

Thus, option C is false.