ABC.com plans to migrate data from an 8530 to a CX700 in the same SAN. A script will be
generated to setup and start the SAN Copy sessions. What other task must be fulfilled prior to
setting up the SAN Copy sessions, after the 8530 ports have been zoned to the CX SP-ports?

You are a designer for ABC.com. ABC.com wants you to design an EMC ControlCenter solution to
reduce the overall storage and management costs. ABC.com wants to manage and report on 50
large servers, 200 medium servers, 4 DMX arrays, 10 CLARiiON arrays, 1 HDS 9960 array, and 1
Celerra Gateway. All systems are located in one datacenter. What are design aspects that you
must consider for this ControlCenter infrastructure?

ABC.com engaged a consulting firm to evaluate its overall business processes. As a result of the
audit, they must implement increased security for its Symmetric environment. Which actions can
best improve the security in the customer SAN at the logical volume level on the Symmetrix?

ABC.com is planning the storage requirements for an Exchange 2003 server, which supports 750
users in a single Exchange Storage Group (ESG) with five databases. ABC.com has indicated that
the average user mailbox will be 125MB and that the projected growth is expected to be 20%. You
need to calculate the capacity needed for the ESG. What other aspects have to be considered for
you to achieve this?

Of the following, what is the classic formula for calculating percentage availability?

In the Hosts/Application tier, what are the most important metrics to use for storage performance
reporting?

You are designing a NAS solution for ABC.com. It will involve adding an NSX with four-X Blades to
an existing CX700. The customer has two ports on each SP to dedicated to the NSX. Which disk
layout best practice should influence you design?

Which of the following is an advantage of port channeling in MDS-series switches/directors?

ABC.com has approached EMC for a meeting to discuss storage consolidation. ABC.com’s
datacenter currently consists of several hundred Windows and UNIX servers. ABC.com’s
Windows environment consists of application servers, web servers, and file servers. ABC.com’s
UNIX systems are running Oracle ERM systems. Furthermore, ABC.com has two mainframes
running their inventory control system, as well as a mixture of DAS and SAN islands (Brocade
Silkworm 1GB switches) along with some old HDS connected to its mainframe that total
approximately 150TB. ABC.com is growing quickly and is searching for methods to bring
expenses under control. High availability has become a priority because of recent outages that
were caused by single points of failure in its storage infrastructure. Which components would be
most appropriate when designing the SAN?

ABC.com has An HP-UX 9000/800 host that currently uses multi-pathed storage provisioned from
a Symmetrix 8830. All LUNs are presented to the host application utilizing Veritas Volume
Manager. ABC.com is replacing the storage array with a DMX1000, and this will require a data
migration effort. The host is running numerous 24×7 applications and has to be online during the
migration. You are considered the following two approaches:host-based mirror/split of the Veritas
volumesarray-based SRDF What drawback does using host-based volume mirroring have for the
migration?