A company is currently planning to use virtual provisioning for consolidating Microsoft Exchange 2010. Ease of administration is their primary concern. They have requested your assistance in providing a design guideline.
What is a key design consideration?

Database administrators load new financial data into their databases between 6 A.M. and 8 A.M. every day. During this time period, the Microsoft Exchange administrators report that archiving operations come to a halt. Neither operation can be moved to a different time due to other dependencies.
How can performance be improved for the Exchange team without impacting the database data import?

Microsoft Exchange has been virtualized to a production ESXi server managed by VMware vCenter. Replication Manager is being used to replicate LUNs containing the Exchange VMFS to a testing ESXi server. The LUNs are successfully replicated and mounted to the testing ESXi server, but the VMFS is not visible.
What could be the cause?

A storage administrator is investigating performance issues on a server attached to an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array. The server is running a database application with database tables located in a file system on a 100 GB standard device. Performance Manager shows that during peak activity times, the 100 GB device is reaching its device write pending limit.
Which solution may help resolve this performance issue?

An EMC Symmetrix VMAX is shared between a company’s sales and engineering departments.
The company has the following requirements:
1. A specific user from the sales department should be allowed to execute TimeFinder commands on the devices set aside for sales using a Solaris host.
2. The same user should not be allowed control over devices belonging to engineering.
3. No other user with an account on the Solaris host should be able to exercise the same controls
specified in the first two requirements.
Which combination of access control permission and user-based authorization role will fulfill this requirement?

A company requires their ESXi server to boot from an EMC Symmetrix VMAX device over the SAN. What is a consideration?

A company plans to use Symmetrix VMAX Virtual Provisioning for their VMware ESXi servers.
They have standardized on 1 TB VMFS datastores built on single LUNs. However, they want the ability to grow the datastore if required.
What is the recommended Symmetrix VMAX storage allocation and why?

A storage administrator is planning to configure an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array for a few critical Microsoft Windows application servers. The array is running Enginuity 5874 and has a mixture of SATA, FC, and EFD disks installed. The application servers all require a mix of high performance and low performance capacity.
Which Symmetrix feature should be used to ensure the most dynamic and efficient use of the array with the best performance possible for all applications?

A company is planning to deploy Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs) in their EMC Symmetrix VMAX array.
When using devices on the EFDs, which I/O profile will benefit the most?

A company is managing their VMware vSphere environment from a Microsoft Windows host. They want to use EMC Virtual Storage Integrator Storage Viewer and Path Management plug-ins.
Which software should be installed on the Windows host before installing the VSI plug-ins?