A company has merged its two existing SANs that were in adjacent buildings. The data center in each location had been utilizing at least half of its total SAN bandwidth. Now they now plan to migrate all production data to one data center and replicate that data across the new ISLs to the other data center which will now only be used for for disaster recovery purposes. What is the potential impact to performance after completing this reconfiguration?

A company has implemented a stretch cluster, active/passive configuration, between two sites that are 100km apart in conjunction with synchronous data replication. They want to perform an upgrade to the primary server and need to run the application at the secondary site with minimal disruption, while still maintaining data integrity. What is the safest procedure to failover the application to the remote site without any data loss?

The storage administrator has a request to add more storage to support added features on an application. Which two (2) steps must be taken for the application to recognize the added storage? (Choose two.)

A storage configuration was created which stores large amounts of infrequently used documents. The storage implementation is based on serial attached SCSI (SAS) and an edge expander. Almost all ports are utilized, and a second edge expander will be installed. What is required to connect SATA devices to the SAS domain?

You are the system administrator of a medium-sized manufacturing company. The chief executive officer (CEO) is concerned about business continuity in case of a disaster. He constituted a project team to develop a business continuity and disaster recovery solution. The team is discussing online backup strategies. What affects time-to-create and incremental update of a copy-on-write snapshot?

The customer has an existing fabric switches installed from one manufacturer. They have decided to add a redundant fabric using switches from a different manufacturer. Interoperability is their main concern. What is important when considering interoperability in the SAN?

A server administrator notices when a specific server is re-booted its SAN storage is sometimes visible and sometimes it is not. After examining the SAN switch logs, no FLOGI message has been received on that port. Which HBA parameter is a most likely cause?

University IT provides shared Fibre Channel storage services. All storage subsystems and fibre channel switches are located in the secure campus datacenter. Each college and department provides their own systems and staff. Central IT provides fabric, storage and backup administration. Which security mechanism is most important in this Fibre Channel infrastructure?

Last month, you successfully merged two (2) local SAN islands into a single core/edge fabric topology and connected storage devices to the core switches. Performance benchmarks were met or exceeded. In recent days, server administrators have documented a slow down in performance as I/O demands have increased. Storage administrators report that all storage ports are under- utilized. What is the most likely explanation?

After a company experienced a localized disaster, the Business Continuance Plan was reviewed. The plan was revised to include a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of four (4) hours and a Recovery Point Object (RPO) of one hour. What two (2) processes must be implemented to support this requirement? (Choose two.)