A customer has decided to consolidate storage onto a CLARiiON. There is a mix of Windows and UNIX workstations in the environment. One goal is to use pointintime copies of data to make backups easier. A secondary goal is to use the pointintime copies to perform a fast recovery in the event of data corruption.
Your initial survey of their environment shows that the read/write ratio of their application is 1:1.
The application appears to be sensitive to disk response times, especially when updating engineering design documents.
Which initial solution should you consider?

A customer is currently reporting on their file system utilization with EMC ControlCenter StorageScope with File Level Collections enabled. What should be done to accommodate an increase in the number of file systems managed?

A customer has asked you to review their procedures for securing backup media that contains sensitive data. As part of your review, you discover that there are no details concerning the vendor that actually transfers the tapes between the data center and the longterm offsite storage facility.
Which concern should you discuss with the customer?

A customer is considering the purchase of a NAS device. They are currently suffering from network saturation issues and would like to know if a Celerra solution would provide relief in this situation.
How would you advise the customer in this situation?

A customer utilizes two CLARiiON CX series arrays in their SAN environment. They have a CX380 in their corporate data center and a CX340 in their remote field office 50 miles away. The customer is considering the purchase of MirrorView software and plans to implement a MirrorView/S solution between sites and use bidirectional mirroring.
The customer wants to use an existing DWDM solution and share the same link with a Symmetrix SRDF solution. What should you tell the customer?

A customer wishes to share storage on a Symmetrix between hosts belonging to the Sales and Engineering departments. Each department should be allowed control over their devices while being denied the right to control the other department’s devices. Neither department should be allowed to make changes to device masking.
Which solution should the customer select?

A national bank is using EMC DiskXtender for Windows to archive scanned check images to an EMC Centera and inactive file data to tape media. Check images are being migrated to the EMC Centera using realtime moves. EMC DiskXtender is configured to purge files immediately after a move.
The bank is using EMC NetWorker to back up the EMC DiskXtender server and creating remote copies of the tape media. The bank is now analyzing their archive environment to prepare for disaster recovery and is not interested in adding any new infrastructure.
Based on the bank’s environment, which solution should you suggest to achieve a comprehensive disaster recovery plan?

A potential EMC Centera customer has the following requirements, in order of priority, for archive storage:
1. Enhanced collision resistance
2. Enhanced performance
3. Optimum storage utilization

Which configuration combination should you propose?

You are designing Cisco fabrics that are dedicated to the provisioning of Invista volumes.
Virtualization is provided via a pair of MDS9216 switches with SSM blades.
What is the preferred use of the FC ports on the SSM blades?

You have been asked to design a new backup solution for a customer. After an initial analysis you decide to implement a twotier solution. The first tier is disk the second tier is tape. A retention period needs to be defined for the first tier that will determine when backup data will be moved to the second tier.
What is an important piece of information you need to consider when determining this retention period?