You have been tasked with installing a 1 TB Avamar AVE server in an ESX environment for a new
customer. The customer has thick provisioned the correct amount of LUNs with the correct sizing.
The Performance Assurance Tool (PAT) has been loaded on the ESX environment and ran for 24
hours. The results come back and the test did not pass the requirements for an AVE installation.
The customer says the test was not valid because there was a high load on their ESX environment
at the same time the test was running. They want to run the test again.
Should the tests be run again without any changes to the environment?

A.
No. The PAT simulates I/O performance of an AVE server and caused the high load.

B.
No. The PAT can only be run once on an environment.

C.
Yes. The extra load on the server skewed the results.

D.
Yes. The PAT tool will take the high load into consideration on the second run.