A company is investigating memory issues with a VMware vSphere implementation. How would
the company determine if there are memory issues at the host level when monitoring through a
vSphere vCenter Server?

Which database workload is suitable for EFD configuration?

You are designing a Symmetrix VMAX Virtual Provisioning solution for a VMware vSphere
environment. Storage allocation must be guaranteed for some mission critical virtual machines.
What format should you recommend when creating virtual disks for these mission critical virtual
machines?

You are designing a boot from SAN solution for VMware ESXi servers connected to a Symmetrix
VMAX storage array. What is a consideration?

A customer has a Symmetrix VMAX array shared between several different business groups.
Each of the hosts has Solutions Enabler installed to support TimeFinder operations. There is a
requirement that each business group can only manage its assigned LUNs. Which security
technology would enable that requirement?

A new data warehouse will be hosted on an existing 4-engine VMAX array. The database server
has 4 HBAs connected at 4Gb/s. Due to limited SAN switch ports only port 0 on each VMAX FA is
connected – also at 4Gb/s.
The workload is expected to require at least 2300MB/s of reads at 128KB I/O size and must
maintain performance in case of any major component failure in the host, switch or array. Assume
that the existing workload on the VMAX does not exceed 100MB/s per port and assume that the

ports can sustain up to 300MB/s without exceeding 70% utilization.
What is the minimum number of FA ports needed to spread the workload evenly across all 4
VMAX engines and meet the above performance requirements?

A customer has a Symmetrix VMAX attached to 12 UNIX servers through a SAN fabric. They
would like to prevent unauthorized access at the port level. Which Symmetrix security feature
would satisfy that requirement?

You are architecting a VMware virtualized Exchange 2010 solution that will include replication of
the Exchange volumes using VMware snapshots. Which type of storage should be presented to
the VMs in order to facilitate replication?

A customer is deploying a multi-node ESXi cluster and DRS to automatically move VM Servers
using vMotion around the cluster. What is the variable to be considered in the design of a cluster
that incorporates different servers?

You are completing a detailed configuration for a VMAX that will support a new Oracle 11g
instance and database. Which volume configuration is best for the Oracle Redo Log files?