EMC Exam Questions

What is the likely cause and recommended resolution for the high FA utilization?

Performance Manager is reporting more than 70% utilization on two VMAX FA ports, but the
total IOPS per port is low. What is the likely cause and recommended resolution for the high
FA utilization?

A.
Striped meta devices are being used, convert to concatenated devices and stripe at the
host volume manager

B.
Linux hosts are connected with the SC3 director flag set, check the HBA speed and
unset the SC3 flag

C.
Large block I/O is resulting in high throughput on each port, spread the workload across
more FA directors

D.
SAN switch ports are set to half duplex, change the FA ports to auto-negotiate and reset
the ports