You are designing the Symmetrix VMAX architecture for a DAS-to-SAN SQL Server
migration. Currently all user databases reside on a single, locally-attached disk enclosure,
mounted to “N:\”. You have decided on RAID-5 protected 15,000 RPM drives for the new
SQL database and RAID-1 for the transaction log.Last week, you configured Perfmon to
record the current IOPS load of the databases during the 8-hour business day, Monday
through Friday as shown in the exhibit. During an average business day, the transaction log
processes 87 GB worth of data.

Following EMC best practices, what is the minimum number of spindles that must be
allocated for optimal transaction log performance?

A.
2

B.
4

C.
8

D.
10