How could this be resolved?
An application hosted on the Symmetrix is experiencing increasingly longer processing times.
However, the data has not changed in several months. New servers are being added regularly to the array, some of which are also experiencing poor performance.
Performance Manager shows an unbalanced back-end. How could this be resolved?
What is the source of the problem?
A company has been creating TimeFinder/Clone replicas of several Microsoft Exchange 2010 mailbox servers using Replication Manager. They have recently added a new Exchange Server 2010 mailbox host to the environment.
In addition, the company has created a scheduled job to create replicas of five storage groups in consecutive order. They notice that the newly added replica jobs seem to take a long time to complete.
What is the source of the problem?
Which two default Symmetrix Access Control Entries (ACE) must be removed to restrict access to hosts that do n
A company must deploy Symmetrix Access Control restricting access to hosts that belong to the ADMIN group. Which two default Symmetrix Access Control Entries (ACE) must be removed to restrict access to hosts that do not belong to the ADMIN group?
Which method should be used to determine the correct IOPS target for calculating the appropriate number of RAI
Prior to creating your Symmetrix VMAX architecture for SQL, you are given a Perfmon Log view containing data for your database LUN. The file contains read and write IOPS collected over the past week, at 3-minute intervals.
Which method should be used to determine the correct IOPS target for calculating the appropriate number of RAID corrected spindles?
How many swaps are allowed at the same time?
Four DRV devices are configured on an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array. As per current settings, a maximum of four simultaneous swaps and eight swaps per day are allowed in the Symmetrix.
Optimizer analyzes the back-end I/O and decides to swap.
How many swaps are allowed at the same time?
Which claim rule applies to control devices such as VCMDB and VMAX ACLX devices?
A company has a vSphere 5.0 environment attached to an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array. They have also installed PowerPath/VE on each host.
Which claim rule applies to control devices such as VCMDB and VMAX ACLX devices?
What is the finest level of backup granularity provided by Replication Manager for Microsoft SQL Server?
What is the finest level of backup granularity provided by Replication Manager for Microsoft SQL Server?
What is the best way to make the necessary changes?
A company has decided to change the multi-path policy for all of the disks attached to their ESXi hosts. The environment consists of 16 ESXi hosts with 84 LUNs connected to each host.
Since the multi-path policy is applied at the LUN level, changing the policy is going to prove challenging. Thousands of changes will have to be made which will be time consuming.
What is the best way to make the necessary changes?
What is most likely the cause?
A company has just installed an update to their vSphere environment that requires VMware tools to be updated on all of their guests. The company has the SMC Virtual Appliance installed in their environment and it is functioning properly.
You notice the status for the VMware tools on the SMC virtual machine is out of date. When you attempt to upgrade the VMware tools on the SMC Virtual Appliance, you receive an error and the update fails.
What is most likely the cause?
How is the write pending limit allocated?
EMC Symmetrix VMAX devices 0AB and 019 are allocated to a UNIX server:
Device 0AB is a two-member meta with a capacity of 50 GB
Device 019 is a standard device with a capacity of 100 GB
The storage administrator found that the utilization of device 019 is much higher than device 0AB.
How is the write pending limit allocated?