A customer is implementing Replication Manager to create local clone replicas of their SQL
database on their VMAX array. The customer is concerned the RM replica jobs may run for
an extended period of time and could cause resource conflicts with other production
applications. How can the customer best minimize the impact of the RM replica jobs on the
array?

A customer reports their hosts are performing slowly after migration to a new VMAX array.
You review performance data from the VMAX and note the following: – I/O sizes are 16 KB.
– The front-end director ports are operating at 1 GB auto-negotiate. – Several front-end
director ports are approaching 100% utilization. – A few director ports show little or no
utilization. What do you advise the customer?

What describes a restartable database in an Oracle environment?

A customer has implemented an Oracle application on a VMAX with a mix of Enterprise
Flash Drives (EFD) and FC 15K drives. EFD are configured in RAID 5 and FC 15K both in
RAID 5 and RAID 1. In terms of IOPS activity, reads are predominant over writes. The
customer decided to place a portion of the database in each tier. Which Oracle database
object(s) is suitable to be placed on the FC 15K RAID 1 drives?

A colleague configured new thin volumes on an EMC Symmetrix VMAX in preparation for a
customer’s Exchange 2010 environment. The Exchange environment will be configured on
a 4- node Windows 2008 Failover Cluster. The customer’s storage environment is already
oversubscribed and the new store volumes are quite large. The colleague wants to avoid
fully allocating the thin volumes. How should you format the volumes?

A customer is implementing Replication Manager to create local clone replicas of their SQL
database on their EMC VMAX array. The customer is concerned the RM replica jobs will run
for an extended period of time and cause resource conflicts with other production
applications. Which action do you recommend to minimize the impact of the RM replica jobs
on the array?

A customer is using Replication Manager to make local TimeFinder/Clone backups of their
Exchange 2010 environment. The customer reconfigured the Exchange environment to
place the logs on the L:\ drive and mount the database on L:\SG1DB1. They updated the
associated Replication Manager replica job to reflect the change. The customer reports the
mount of the database to the backup server now fails. What do you advise the customer?

Four days after configuring FAST-VP on a new VMAX array with EFD, FC and SATA tiers
you notice that FAST-VP is moving data, but only 20% of the EFD tier has been consumed.
The active FAST-VP policy lists 100% for the EFD tier. What is preventing more data
moving to the EFD tier?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left corner. A customer would like to add a new
database application to their VMAX. This application is expected to produce 3000 I/O per
second with 45% read hit and 25% write. The customer expects to use RAID 5 (3+1) on
new drives that are not yet utilized. These drives perform 100 SCSI commands per second
(read/writes) at 100% utilization. Assuming drive utilization should not exceed 70%, how
many physical drives, excluding hot spares, does the customer need to achieve
performance requirements?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left corner. A new Oracle database is being
deployed on a 4-engine VMAX array. The DBA requests 2TB of usable capacity. Which
configuration will best distribute database workload across the back-end Disk Adapters
(DAs) while avoiding host queing?