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Which migration methods are appropriate for this project?

ABC.com wants to migrate their existing Symmetrix to a new DMX within the same data center.
They use a combination of Windows, HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux servers. The customer has also
decided to change their standard LUN size from the existing four-member metavolumes consisting
of 8.5 GB hypervolumes to a single 34 GB hypervolume.
Which migration methods are appropriate for this project?

How many disks are required for each configuration type?

A customer is deploying a Microsoft Exchange 2003 environment and has requested assistance
with the associated disk design. They are deploying Exchange for 850 users with an average of 3
I/Os per user. They expect a 60% read and 40% write distribution.
The customer would like to know the number of disks required for both RAID 5 and RAID 1/0 DMX
configurations with 10k rpm drives. How many disks are required for each configuration type?

What should you recommend to manage the clone operations efficiently and to improve the backup performance?

ABC.com is using EMC NetWorker for backups in their environment. They have multiple physical
tape libraries that are used for backups and clone operations at the primary data center and a
disaster recovery site. The backup data is cloned daily to the remote disaster recovery site.
Their backups are taking longer and are not able to complete the clone operations within one day
to meet their service level objectives. What should you recommend to manage the clone
operations efficiently and to improve the backup performance?

what is the minimum number of ISLs that must exist between switch pairs?

You work as an administrator at ABC.com. You study the exhibit carefully.
Exhibit:

You are creating a full mesh fabric out of four directors, each with 140 4 Gb/s ports. The observed
loads on the switches are displayed in the exhibit.
Based on the information provided, what is the minimum number of ISLs that must exist between
switch pairs?

They are currently replicating the EMC Centera to Site

You work as an administrator at ABC.com. You study the exhibit carefully.
Exhibit:

ABC.com is designing an environment in order to archive inactive file data to an EMC Centera.
The files are migrated to the EMC Centera only if they have not been accessed in the last 90 days.
The customer also requires a comprehensive disaster recovery solution to restore all the data in
the event of a disaster. They are currently replicating the EMC Centera to Site

How should you design the solution to address the customer’s concern?

ABC.com running a Microsoft Exchange e-mail environment is primarily concerned about the
growing size of their mail server message stores. They are interested in using EMC EmailXtender
with EMC DiskXtender to archive the messages to an EMC Centera if that solution reduces the
size of their message stores.
How should you design the solution to address the customer’s concern?