A customer is setting up an Oracle environment. According to best practices, which RAID level configuration should you recommend for the control file(s)?

A customer uses a thirdparty array in their SAN with six file servers, two twonode Exchange clusters (< 500 users), and a large Oracle database server connected to it. Total capacity on the array is approximately 17 TB.
The customer will be deploying a Solarisbased ERP package within the next six weeks.

Performance has degraded to unacceptable levels and the customer is asking EMC to propose a replacement of the SAN and array.
Criteria for making an EMC recommendation are ranked as.
1. Predictable, scalable performance
2. High availability
3. Flexibility of the solution
4. Expandability (disaster recovery is a future need)
5. Minimal operational disruption
6. Price

Which proposal would best meet these criteria?

A customer would like to use Replication Manager along with a Celerra solution. They have asked if there are any limitations when accessing the replica. The replica of the destination LUN is designed to be used for content distribution, data mining, testing, or other applications that offload activity from the production LUN.
Which consideration should be identified to the customer?

A customer is interested in a solution that provides detailed reports on all the files, file systems, Oracle databases, SQL Server databases, and Exchange servers in their environment. In order to design a suitable solution, which information do you need to gather?

A customer is using EMC NetWorker to back up all clients in their data center. They are storing the backups on tape and keeping all the backups onsite for possible restores. Due to a change in government regulations, they now need to maintain an additional copy at an offsite location.
What should be done to accommodate the customer’s requirements?

A customer has many remote sites with limited bandwidth and fewer than five servers in those locations. The customer likes to back up the servers in these remote sites to their central data center. The customer is looking at various deduplicationbased backup applications and has asked you to explain what makes EMC Avamar a better fit for the environment that has bandwidth limitations.
Which EMC Avamar design feature addresses the customer’s question?

A customer is deploying a new Microsoft Exchange environment and has requested assistance with the associated disk design. They are deploying Exchange for 850 users with an average of 3 I/Os per user.
They expect a 60% read and 40% write distribution.
The customer would like to know the number of disks required for both RAID 5 and RAID 1/0 CLARiiON configurations with 15k rpm drives. How many disks are required for each configuration type?

A customer has been using EMC NetWorker for the past five years as a backup application in their environment. Over the five years, several new systems were added in the customer’s environment that are not part of the backup network. The customer is now planning to assess their infrastructure to determine the systems that need to be backed up.
Which application should you use to gather this information?

A customer plans to roll out several experimental largescale host clusters with lowcost blades for computationally intensive workloads. All IS operations are in a single data center (50 m x 40 m). They use directattached storage on all hosts. For better manageability of storage, they are considering a SAN infrastructure with CLARiiON storage (CX340s). Preliminary design calls for 200 server blades.
Cost and performance are both critical considerations, but high availability is not. Your initial design has singlepathed FC connectivity to each host. Under sustained load, each server blade can sustain up to 4,000 IOPS at 16 KB per I/O.
Which additional information do you need before you can attempt a preliminary, highlevel SAN design for this environment?

A customer uses EMC Centera to archive several different types of documents managed by different applications. They have developed a new application that will need to read the objects belonging to the other applications but will not need to write to the EMC Centera.
Which EMC Centera security feature should the application developers use to provide access to the objects for the new application?