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?