Your customer is designing a CIFS application with very specific high CIFS I/O requirements.
What is the best recommendation when designing the CIFS storage pool?

You are planning a file-only implementation where the customer will be using AVM. You want to
make the best use of storage pools to preserve the performance of VNX.
Which statement offers the best storage pool guidance for file system creation with AVM?

Your customer is using the front-end iSCSI ports on their VNX. They are experiencing long delays
and reduced bandwidth as they add servers to their environment.
Which option will increase the customer’s overall bandwidth while maintaining EMC best practices
for iSCSI?

Your customer currently has a Block-only VNX. They now want to add file services to replace an
older Windows Server cluster. You are planning to add the file option to the current configuration.
Where in the configuration do the Control LUNs for file reside?

A customer created a user-defined storage pool to physically segregate the file systems of a

business unit. The customer was careful to select LUNs from different RAID Groups for the userdefined pool. After creating a file system from this storage pool with AVM, the customer
discovered that the file system was created on a single LUN instead of multiple LUNs for better
performance.
What do you recommend to make AVM use multiple LUNs when creating a file system from the
user-defined pool?

You are asked to design the backend layout for a large Unified Storage VNX. You find that the
customer intends to use most of the disk space for block-level devices in the SAN.
How should NAS RAID Groups be selected on the array for optimum AVM performance?

A customer has an existing Unified VNX which is used only for block data. They are now looking to
consolidate a few Windows servers onto the VNX. There is empty space on existing pools, which
the customer is planning to use for file storage.
What would you advise the customer?

Your customer has recently deployed MS SharePoint using MS SQL as the backend database.
Their deployment has grown to over 1 TiB in size and continues to increase approximately 10%
per month. Their users have reported performance issues.
What configuration using externalization of BLOB data should you recommend?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. A customer has an application
requirement of 3000 IOPS with 60/40 read/write ratio and with 5 TiB storage capacity. The I/O is
random. The customer is concerned about cost. You are proposing VNX with 300 GB 10K SAS
drives.
What should the proposed configuration be to minimize the costs with EMC best practices in
mind?

A customer is considering the VNX to support the SQL environment. What storage feature of the
VNX provides the best performance for the SQL application?