Statement: A distributed storage deployment using local disks on each server and binding resources with a service network guarantees elastic scaling of storage resources. Is this statement True or False?

• A. Not Applicable
• B. False
• C. True
• D. Cannot Be Determined

Answer: (B)

Elastic scaling means the system can grow or shrink storage capacity without downtime and without manual data movement. If storage is built only from local disks on each server and you’re “binding” resources with a service network, there isn’t inherently a single shared pool of storage or automatic data distribution. When new capacity is added, data typically must be moved or rebalanced manually, and metadata management, data placement, and resilience aren’t automatically handled across the whole cluster. To truly achieve elastic scaling, you need a storage layer that presents a global pool, provides dynamic provisioning, and automatically rebalances data as nodes join or leave. Without that, elastic scaling isn’t guaranteed, so the statement is false.