Before moving to production, which Microsoft tool would you use to validate your storage design?
You have completed your storage design for your customer’s Microsoft Exchange 2007 implementation. Before moving to production, which Microsoft tool would you use to validate your storage design?
When evaluating this environment, what should be a primary consideration?
A customer data center has several large FibreChannel SANs supporting AIX, HPUX, Solaris, Windows, NetWare, and Linux platforms. They have dedicated a portion of their gigabit network for iSCSI traffic. The customer is considering a strategy of using iSCSI for every new host that will not run missioncritical applications.
When evaluating this environment, what should be a primary consideration?
Which EMC technology would allow for the fastest data migration?
A customer wants to migrate their production data that is spread across 4,000 logical volumes from a Symmetrix 8800 to a DMX within the same data center. They use a combination of Windows, HPUX, and Solaris servers.
Which EMC technology would allow for the fastest data migration?
What needs to be done before creating online replicas?
A customer uses Replication Manager with Oracle 11g. What needs to be done before creating online replicas?
Which additional information is critical to the success of this solution?
Customer applications are running on HPUX servers attached to a CX380. The CLARiiON LUNs currently used by the application are 50 GB metaLUNs. The applications require more disk space.
Expansion of the CLARiiON metaLUNs to 100 GB has been proposed.
Which additional information is critical to the success of this solution?
Which methods of migration would be appropriate for this project?
You are preparing a preliminary migration analysis for an existing customer. The customer currently has 20 Windows servers, 13 Linux servers, a Symmetrix 8530, a SAN, and one NetApp filer. In addition, some of the host applications use directattached storage. The target of the migration is a CLARiiON that is accessible using SAN and a NAS gateway.
Which methods of migration would be appropriate for this project?
How would you resolve the customer’s issue?
A costconscious customer expressed concern that during backup windows they experience poor performance from their CLARiiON array. However, during the day they have experienced no performance problems. Using NaviAnalyzer, they have determined that the read cache is completely saturated during the backup processes and they believe this is causing the performance problem.
The customer is requesting that you design a solution to resolve the problem. How would you resolve the customer’s issue?
What represents the best solution for this situation?
A customer has a Celerra NS80 presenting iSCSI LUNs for MS Exchange. The customer is concerned about the ability to place the applications in the proper state either for backup or restart.
What represents the best solution for this situation?
How should you respond to the customer?
A customer is planning to archive messages from their Lotus Domino mail server to tape media.
They want to ensure that tapes containing the messages cannot be read outside the archiving solution.
The customer would like to know if EMC EmailXtender can be used in this situation. How should you respond to the customer?
Which initial information is required to design a disaster recovery solution?
A major corporation had an extended outage of their missioncritical application. This outage caused a large financial loss. The missioncritical application is SAP/Oracle running on Solaris servers connected through a Brocade SAN to a DMX4 array. The application is currently running 8 ms response times.
Which initial information is required to design a disaster recovery solution?