Test 2

What type of VNX MPFS configuration is illustrated with this topology?

The majority of your customer's servers have highly utilized database applications that
require predictable performance. What type of storage do you recommend?

What type of VNX configuration is illustrated with this topology?

While gathering performance data during peak workloads, which type of collection
method is best suited?

You are gathering data from a customer environment. You have to process a number of
configuration reports. What tool provides a simple method of processing the data
gathering configuration?

When interviewing customer personnel, you learn of two sets of requirements:
- The technical team has a specific set of requirements that they have to meet.
- The manager has a financial requirement that has to be met.
As you begin to design, it becomes clear that, in order to meet the technical goal, the
financial requirement will be exceeded. What should you do?

During your design analysis you have gathered current storage configuration data and
matched storage volumes with server data. You have discovered some inconsistencies
with the collected data. What should the next step be?

Which protocols are the best solution for Grid Computing and High Performance
Computing environments?

Which RecoverPoint/SE data protection methodology enables block protection as well
as a file DR solution?

When documenting the customer environment prior to a storage refresh, you discover
that the customer has an issue their backups do not complete every job. How should you
proceed?

Your customer has purchased a VNX to upgrade the storage for an Exchange Server
cluster. What tool should you use to gather performance data from the Exchange cluster?

While gathering existing customer environment information to provide a new VNX
storage system solution, you have found many different HBA types, servers, operating
systems, and other SAN hardware. Which wizard within E-Lab Navigator can be used to
validate a new VNX storage solution?

Your customer needs help understanding Unisphere statistics on a VNX, specifically the
Number of Write Cache Pages. How do you explain this metric to the customer?

A customer wants to write a script that needs to list all linked remote VNX arrays for
file-based replication. What CLI command should you recommend?

You are preparing a detailed VNX presentation for a technically-oriented customer.
VNX arrays have been in their environment for over a year. One objective of the
meeting is to go over historical data. The customer indicated that they would like to see
Unisphere statistics as part of the analysis. Assuming that statistics logging was enabled
from day one, how long does the Unisphere GUI keep its real-time statistics?

You are gathering data on a customer's VNX for analysis. Which Navisphere Secure
CLI command can be used to display cumulative numbers for Total Reads and Total
Writes?

A customer is experiencing a performance issue with a specific VNX file system.
Analyzer showed that the utilization of several RAID Groups was in the red. The
problematic file system, however, was mapped only to one of those RAID Groups, while
other RAID Groups served file systems without known issues. How would you explain
utilization metric to this customer?

A customer is questioning whether their Unified VNX configuration is compliant with
EMC VNX best practices. To start your evaluation, what information will you ask the
customer’s storage administrator to provide?

A customer plans on using parallel NFS (pNFS) with the VNX. Which EMC document
should be used to validate VNX support for pNFS?

You have advised your customer to upgrade their current CLARiiON storage array
before migrating to a new VNX. The customer would like additional information about
what benefits the upgrade will provide. Where can you find information on known and
fixed problems for EMC products?

Which two scopes are only used by a VNX system while logging into USM?

Your customer is looking to consolidate their current Windows CIFS server virtualized
on VMware to a purpose built file sharing device. Their environment consists oF.
- 250-300 power users leveraging complex macros and import data from other
applications
- 15000-18000 average users leveraging home directories
- Some files are shared between their Windows and Red Hat application teams.
What key information should be collected to size and configure the VNX for their multi-
protocol shares?

You are doing performance analysis on a VNX5100 that is configured with three virtual
pools. You determine that FAST Cache would benefit overall performance. Why are you
unable to configure FAST Cache on the array?

A customer wants your help in deciding if their existing VNX array can be used to do
back up to disk, instead for tape backups. The customer has a unified VNX that is fully
populated with 125 disks. When looking at analyzer data for the array, you see that it has
a consistent utilization of over 70% on both SPs. According to EMC best practices, what
do you recommend to your customer?

You are planning a technical refresh of a customer's CLARiiON storage array to a VNX.
They have stated that the CLARiiON seems to perform slowly and believe that they
require additional disk spindles to satisfy their performance requirements. What utility
should you use to investigate performance trends?

Your customer has established a new virtual pool of storage containing NL-SAS drives
in a RAID 5 configuration. Recently they have noticed that performance on the entire
array is affected between 1:00AM and 4:00AM. What information would best indicate
the root cause?

You are reviewing log files for a customer’s application using Analyzer, and note the
followinG.
- NFS write size is 8 KiB LUN
- Write size is 8 KiB
- Disk write size is 32 KiB
You can see that LUN write sizes are identical at 8 KiB. Why is the application not
writing at 32 KiB?

A customer is troubleshooting performance issues on a newly implemented VNX array.
They have asked you how to check LUN SP ownership and the performance of
individual disks. Which tool would you recommend?

Refer to the exhibit.
A customer is analyzing the size of data sent to disk. Which command generated the
output?

You are reviewing a NAR file and notice that a LUN has a write cache hit ratio of 0.0.
How can you tell if write cache is enabled for the LUN?

Your customer is designing a newly purchased VNX with 30 NL-SAS drives. The
customer's requirements in order of priority are 1) data availability and 2) performance.
What RAID type do you recommend?

During a customer data gathering meeting, a discussion about applications was
presented. Most of the applications will best be suited for a RAID 5 pool on the VNX.
However, one of the applications has an I/O requirement for RAID 1/0 spindles. How
should the RAID 1/0 application requirement be handled?

Several Windows Server 2008 and RedHat Linux 5.5 servers are attached to VNX
storage arrays. PowerPath version 5.5 was installed on all Windows servers but not on
any of the Linux servers. Linux servers are using native MPIO for path failover. What
are the required failover modes for Windows Server 2008 and RedHat Linux 5.5
servers?

Several Windows servers are allocated storage from the VNX array. The customer
would like to know whether any of these servers are subject to disk crossing. What tools
are available to verify this condition?

Your customer wants to add Flash drives to their VNX array and use them as FAST
Cache. They have specified that they want at least 150 GB of actual FAST Cache
capacity on each SP. There are no Flash drives in the array and they want to follow
EMC best practices on hot spares. How can this be achieved?

Your customer has recently purchased nine VNX arrays. They would like to utilize their
current single Tier 2 backup server to back up the Tier 2 LUNs on all nine arrays, and
would like to remain aligned with EMC best practices. What is your recommendation?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. A customer has four (4) LUNs
of 500 GiB each, six (6) LUNs of 250 GiB each, and five (5) LUNs of 100 GiB each.
All the drives presently in their VNX system are SAS and NL-SAS. They wish to
implement FAST Cache. Your data collection shows the skew to be 95%. What is the
minimum size of FAST Cache recommended for this environment?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. A customer has 6 LUNs of
500 GiB each, 6 LUNs of 250 GiB each, and 15 LUNs of 100 GiB each. All the drives
presently in their VNX system are SAS and NL-SAS. They wish to implement FAST
Cache. Your data collection shows the skew to be 94%. What is the minimum
recommended size of FAST Cache for this environment?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. A customer has a
heterogeneous pool with the following configuration:
- 800 GiB of Flash, with 300 GiB free
- 12,000 GiB of SAS, with 2,000 GiB free
- 50,000 GiB of NL-SAS, with 25,000 GiB free
The customer creates a new LUN with data placement policy set to "highest available
tier". The LUN is then populated with 600 GiB of data. How is that data distributed
(numbers are approximate)?

Your customer's IT group configured a VNX array and created multiple RAID 5 (2+1)
RAID Groups. They just realized their mistake and bought new drives. How would you
bring the customer into compliance with EMC best practices with minimal impact?

Your customer has two clustered SQL servers that require direct access to LUNs located
on their VNX storage array. Both servers are located in the customer's main office. The
VNX storage array is located in the customer's data center, which is approximately 1.5
km from their office. Both facilities are interconnected using their existing IP network.
Which protocol should be used to connect the servers to the storage array?

Your customer needs to add additional capacity to their existing FAST VP which
currently contains four Flash drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Which configurations
can be added to this pool?

Your customer has just purchased a new VNX, which will be dedicated to their large
SQL 2008 cluster. High-performance and high-availability are critical. To meet their
availability requirements, the customer has requested the configuration be optimized to
allow both storage processors to process I/O for any given LUN without trespassing the
LUN. Which configuration best supports their availability requirements?

Your customer has just purchased ten 1TB NL-SAS drives for their VNX array. This
additional capacity will be used to archive their large image repository. Which
configuration will provide the most efficient use of capacity while still following best
practices?

After reviewing the design for their new VNX, your customer has requested further
explanation of the hot spare algorithm used by the array. You propose the following
scenario: RAID group 200 consists of five 600 GB 10K SAS drives in a RAID 5
configuration. Within this RAID group there are three 25 GiB LUNs. One of the five
drives has just failed. In your scenario, which hot spare drive would the array first select
to replace the failed drive?

Your customer is designing a VNX file system using CIFS quotas with a supported
third-party application. What software option is required to support this implementation?

Your customer is implementing a Unified VNX system leveraging CIFS general purpose
file shares. They are implementing all virtual provisioning and FAST features to
maximize storage efficiency. Which recommendations are made when leveraging virtual
provisioning?

Refer to the exhibit.

While trying to maximize availability for CIFS clients, the customer has designed the
following 10 Gb/s IP environment. What would you change in this design?
a. Ensure every connection has a failover to another switch.
b. Two Nexus switches are needed and the connection to the third switch removed.
c. Add three more connections to the VNX.
d. Change from LACP to EtherChannel for higher performance.
e. Upgrade to a VNX7500 to provide additional Data Movers.

You get a call from the customer asking about Active Directory integration for user
mapping. They have used EMC NAS products for over ten years and have extended the
schema some years ago. Now they are trying to migrate to default Windows Services for
UNIX (SFU, aka IDMU) for the UID/GID needs. Which statement best describes the
choices available?

A customer is concerned about UserMapper database and asks you what will happen to
the VNX CIFS users if UserMapper is unavailable. What do you advise them?

Your customer has recently purchased a VNX for File. Due to the budget limits, they
were unable to purchase enough SAS drives to create all of their required file shares.
They would like to use their NL-SAS drives but are concerned about lower performance.
What EMC solution do you propose?

Your customer is designing a CIFS application with very specific high CIFS I/O
requirements.m What is the best recommendation when designing the CIFS storage
pool?

You are planning a file-only implementation where the customer will be using AVM.
You want to make the best use of storage pools to preserve the performance of VNX.
Which statement offers the best storage pool guidance for file system creation with AVM?

Your customer is using the front-end iSCSI ports on their VNX. They are experiencing
long delays and reduced bandwidth as they add servers to their environment. Which
option will increase the customer's overall bandwidth while maintaining EMC best
practices for iSCSI?

Your customer currently has a Block-only VNX. They now want to add file services to
replace an older Windows Server cluster. You are planning to add the file option to the
current configuration. Where in the configuration do the Control LUNs for file reside?

A customer created a user-defined storage pool to physically segregate the file systems
of a business unit. The customer was careful to select LUNs from different RAID
Groups for the user- defined pool. After creating a file system from this storage pool
with AVM, the customer discovered that the file system was created on a single LUN
instead of multiple LUNs for better performance. What do you recommend to make
AVM use multiple LUNs when creating a file system from the user-defined pool?

You are asked to design the backend layout for a large Unified Storage VNX. You find
that the customer intends to use most of the disk space for block-level devices in the
SAN. How should NAS RAID Groups be selected on the array for optimum AVM
performance?

A customer has an existing Unified VNX which is used only for block data. They are
now looking to consolidate a few Windows servers onto the VNX. There is empty space
on existing pools, which the customer is planning to use for file storage. What would
you advise the customer?

Your customer has recently deployed MS SharePoint using MS SQL as the backend
database. Their deployment has grown to over 1 TiB in size and continues to increase
approximately 10% per month. Their users have reported performance issues. What
configuration using externalization of BLOB data should you recommend?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. A customer has an application
requirement of 3000 IOPS with 60/40 read/write ratio and with 5 TiB storage capacity.
The I/O is random. The customer is concerned about cost. You are proposing VNX with
300 GB 10K SAS drives. What should the proposed configuration be to minimize the
costs with EMC best practices in mind?

A customer is considering the VNX to support the SQL environment. What storage
feature of the VNX provides the best performance for the SQL application?

A customer is planning on migrating their Exchange data to a VNX array. You have
gathered the following information:
- 6000 IOPS; 50% read/write ratio
Calculating for RAID 5, what is the minimum number of 15K SAS drives required?

A customer has the following requirements for their ESX environment:
- Three 500 GiB datastores
- One 1 TiB datastore
- One 7 TiB datastore
Based on the datastore information, what would you recommend?

After deploying their new VNX, your customer has inquired about features and tools to
optimize their VMware environment. Which tools or feature enables efficient SCSI
LUN reservation methods and reduces I/O traffic during cloning or zeroing operations?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. Your customer has the
following requirements for their CIFS home directories:
- Checkpoint every 10 minutes
- Data retention 24-hours
- Self-service file-level recovery
Which checkpoint interval in minutes should you recommend?

A customer has purchased a VNX array and is in the process of allocating RAID 5 (4+1)
storage. They have asked you for best practices on number and placement of LUNs for
the Reserved LUN pool. Which response provides the best answer?
B. Reserved LUNs can be of different sizes, but there should be no more than 25 in a
4+1 RAID 5 Group.

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. A customer wants to add a
SnapView snapshot to a 500 GiB LUN. Captured data show that the LUN performs 500
4 KiB IOPs with a read/write ratio of 3:1. What is the expected initial bandwidth at
which data chunks will be written into the Reserved LUN Pool?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. A customer wants to add a
SnapView snapshot to a 600 GiB LUN. Captured data show that the LUN has an access
rate of 1000 IOPs with a read/write ratio of 4:1, and 8 KiB IOs. What is the expected
initial bandwidth at which data chunks will be written into the Reserved LUN Pool?

A snapshot is being used to perform a backup of the LUN. How can the backup activity
impact the host performance on the source LUN?

A customer would like to implement SnapView but has expressed concern about
performance. Which applications will cause performance issues?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. Customer requirements call
for a SnapView snapshot to be made of a clone prior to resynchronization. The source
LUN is 256 GiB, and performs 500 random reads/s and 25 random writes/s of 8 KiB.
The clone will be fractured every 15 minutes, and resynchronized after the snapshot is
started. How many COFWs will be performed each time the clone is resynchronized?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. Customer requirements call
for a SnapView snapshot to be made of a clone prior to resynchronization. The source
LUN is 512 GiB, and performs 550 random reads/s and 10 random writes/s of 4 KiB.
The clone will be fractured every 10 minutes, and resynchronized after the snapshot is
started. How many COFWs will be performed each time the clone is resynchronized?

A customer requests to have 90 SnapSure checkpoints for every file system. After an
interview with the administrator, you learn that the company has to comply with an
industry requirement of keeping data on disk for a quarter. What approach solves the
requirement with least disk overhead?

Your customer has recently seen a significant increase in overall useable capacity of
their CIFS file shares after enabling file-based deduplication. They have also noticed a
significant decrease in the overall available storage on the VNX system. What is the
most likely cause?

Your customer is running Exchange 2007 with VSS.

They have just purchased RecoverPoint/SE.
Which replication options are supported for their Exchange 2007 environment?

Your customer is planning to implement RecoverPoint for local replication. They have
several CLARiiON CX-4 arrays, two Celerras and a VNX array. They have the
following hosts in the environment: Windows (2003 and 2008), Linux and AIX. They
also use VMware. The customer wants to use host-based splitters Which version of
RecoverPoint should you recommend?

You have been working with a customer on sizing and implementing a RecoverPoint/SE
CDP solution into their environment. The customer calls you, wanting to know how they
can log in to the RecoverPoint application. What IP address should they use to
accomplish this?

Your customer plans to use Incremental SAN Copy as part of a DR solution. The Source
LUN is 512 GiB in size, and a clone of this LUN will be used as the ISC source LUN.

The host accessing the LUN generates 500 4 KiB IOPS with a R/W ratio of 3:1. The
clone is fractured every 30 minutes, and an ISC update is performed. How much data is
moved across the link in the 30-minute period?

Your customer plans to use Incremental SAN Copy as part of a DR solution. The Source
LUN is 256 GiB in size, and a clone of this LUN will be used as the ISC source LUN.
The host accessing the LUN generates 500 4 KiB IOPS with a R/W ratio of 9:1. The
clone is fractured every 20 minutes, and an ISC update is performed. How much data is
moved across the link in the 20- minute period?

You are reviewing the MirrorView/S configuration on a VNX array. The source LUN is
a metaLUN. What is the best practice for FAST Cache for component LUNs of a
metaLUN source?

A customer has a 512 GiB primary MirrorView/S image. The image workload is 1,000
IOPs of random 4 KiB IOs, with a R/W ratio of 3:1. The secondary image is fractured

for 30 seconds as the result of a connectivity failure. How much data will be copied to
the secondary as part of the resynchronization process?

A customer has a 256 GiB primary MirrorView/S image. The image workload is 1,000
IOPs of random 8 KiB I/Os, with a R/W ratio of 3:1. The secondary image is fractured
for 20 seconds as the result of a connectivity failure. How much data will be copied to
the secondary as part of the resynchronization process?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. A customer has a 2 TiB LUN
which will be mirrored with MirrorView/S. Analyzer shows the current workload to be
500 8 KiB IOPs with a R/W ratio of 3:1. The customer requires that the mirror should
resynchronize within 2 hours if fractured for 10 minutes or less. How much bandwidth is
required to meet customer requirements?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. A customer has a 1 TiB LUN
which will be mirrored with MirrorView/S. Analyzer shows the current workload to be

600 8 KiB IOPs with a R/W ratio of 2:1. The customer requires that the mirror should
resynchronize within 90 minutes if fractured for 15 minutes or less. How much
bandwidth is required to meet customer requirements?

Your customer wants to set up MirrorView/S between VNX arrays in their primary and
secondary data centers. The two data centers are located 50 kilometers apart. Both VNX
arrays are running Unisphere version 1.1. How can this be done?

You are reviewing the array configuration of a VNX array that has MirrorView/A
enabled. You notice that all the images related to MirrorView/A have FAST Cache
disabled. What is the best practice for FAST Cache on MirrorView/A?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. Your customer wants to use a
VNX system at an unmanned DR site. The system will be used exclusively as a
secondary MirrorView/A system, and it is capable of performing 30,000 LUN IOPs in
this role. The primary system is also a VNX. If the primary image workload consists of

4 KiB random IOs with a R/W ratio of 3:1, what is the maximum bandwidth required for
the link between the VNX systems?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. Your customer wants to use a
VNX system at an unmanned DR site. The system will be used exclusively as a
secondary MirrorView/A system, and it is capable of performing 60,000 LUN IOPs in
this role. The primary system is also a VNX. If the total primary image workload
consists of 1 KiB random I/Os with a R/W ratio of 3:1, what is the maximum bandwidth
required for the link between the VNX systems?

How is RPO calculated in MirrorView/A environments?

During data collection, the Time Out of Sync (TOS) setting is currently set at 10
minutes. You recommend a larger TOS setting based on the data that will be replicated.
Under what conditions would you increase the TOS setting?

A new customer is looking at purchasing two new VNXs and wants to replicate the
CIFS environment. What is a recommended configuration to have CIFS replicated?

Your customer calls you about their new replication solution. CIFS access is being
interrupted intermittently on the replication target. What would you recommend to avoid
interruption?

During a design session with the customer you discover a need to replicate the source
VNX to many locations for Disaster Recovery requirements. How many locations or
targets can Replicator support?

You have been asked to design a replication solution for file data. The replication will be
from a customer's remote data center to their primary data center. The distance between
the data centers is 1200 km. The initial synchronization is 125 Gb of data over a WAN
(1.2 Mb/s) with a 33 ms delay. Which replication solution supports the use of physical
media to transport the initial copy?

During a design session with the customer, you determine that they require all tier one
LUNs on the production VNX be replicated to a remote VNX. They also require the
ability to be able to restore or mount the data at any given time during the day. What
replication technology would you recommend?

A customer wants to use RecoverPoint/SE CRR. They have just realized that they need
to use RecoverPoint write splitters, but do not understand how they work. What does the
splitter do after it intercepts a write I/O meant for a RecoverPoint Protected LUN?

You are sizing a new RecoverPoint/SE CRR installation for a customer. You have
gathered data from their environment and have decided that they will need 142
consistency groups. How many RecoverPoint clusters at each site must you plan for?

You are sizing a new RecoverPoint/SE CRR installation for a customer. You have
gathered data from their environment and have decided that they will need 142
consistency groups. How many RecoverPoint appliances at each site must you plan for?

A customer is migrating NFS data off the legacy non-EMC array to the VNX. The
customer wants to keep downtime to a minimum. Which tool is best suited for this task?

A customer is migrating multiprotocol data off a NetApp array to a VNX. The customer
wants to keep downtime to a minimum. Which tool is best suited for this task?

A customer is planning on migrating fourteen Windows clusters onto a VNX. They want
to preserve all CIFS server names. Using best practices, which option would you
recommend?

A customer is looking to migrate an existing VNX gateway from a CLARiiON CX-4
backend to a VMAX. Which migration option mitigates risk and requires the least
effort?

A customer is replacing a CLARiiON CX-4 array with a VNX array. SAN Copy Pull is
determined to be the best method to migrate the data. What is an advantage of using the
pull method in this scenario?

A customer has a VNX array replicating to a CX array using MirrorView/S. A new
VNX array will be installed and used for testing. A copy of the existing VNX/CX data
needs to reside on the new VNX array. Incremental SAN Copy will be used to perform
the copy. Which will be a valid source LUN for the migration?

Your customer has purchased a VNX and wants to migrate their block and file data from
their legacy integrated Celerra. They would like to use their existing EMC File
Management Appliance to migrate all of the data. What do you recommend?

Your customer recently bought VNX storage array to consolidate multiple NetApp arrays.
The customer has Windows and UNIX servers as well NFS and CIFS file systems.
What migration tools are available to migrate the data from NetApp to VNX?

Customer has two data centers and acquired two VNX storage arrays in each data center
to consolidate their existing CLARiiON CX-4 arrays. One of the requirements is remote
replication using MirrorView. What are the front-end storage port restrictions?

Your customer has recently purchased a new VNX. They have chosen SAN Copy to
migrate data from their existing CLARiiON to the new VNX. The customer has stated
that only 50% of the capacity within each of the source LUNs is actually consumed.
Source LUNs are 500 GiB RAID 5 on 1 TB SATA disks. All LUNs and RAID Groups
on the source array are configured the same. Using best practices, which target LUN
configuration should you use?

You have decided to use SAN Copy to perform an incremental copy migration of your
customer's data. There are 25 source LUNs; each LUN is 250 GiB in size. The target
LUNs are each 300 GiB in size. Using best practices, what is the smallest sized LUN in
GiB you should use in the reserved LUN
pool for this migration?

When using SnapView, what happens when the Reserved LUNs assigned to a LUN
become 100% full?

When is the Copy on First Write mechanism enabled?

What controls the reporting of events when using Event Monitor?

What is the function of Usermapper?

What VNX feature enables administrators to group file systems and CIFS servers into
virtual containers?

Which file protocol allows clients to access storage devices directly and in parallel?