A storage administrator is planning to implement Dynamic Cache Partitioning (DCP) on an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array. There are five applications running on hosts attached to this array. The administrator wants to ensure that none of these applications have any effect on each other due to cache conflicts.
Which steps need to be completed to configure DCP?

You are planning to fill a large Symmetrix VMAX array with 15,000 rpm Fibre Channel drives and 7,200 rpm SATA drives. How can you ensure that every back-end director manages just one type of drive?

A server providing streaming video to clients is configured with storage from an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array. The data on this server is static and does not change. The file system for the videos is on a 600 GB striped metavolume made up from 8 x 75 GB standard RAID 5 devices.
The storage administrator is baselining the performance of the system using Performance Manager. The administrator notices that the “seq reads per sec” metric is much lower than expected for a heavy sequential read application.
What is the most likely reason for this situation?

Several months ago a company implemented a synchronous R1/R2 architecture with local clone protection enabled by Replication Manager for their Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment.
Recently a failure of the environmental systems led to a site-wide failure, including the Exchange server hardware. Site failover was initiated and the R2 volumes were mounted to a disaster recovery Exchange host.
When the company attempts to mount the databases, they receive a Jet_Page_Not_Found error and the databases will not mount. A tape backup is ordered from the offsite facility and used to restore a backup from several days ago.
Which action should be taken to ensure remote recoverability from disk of Exchange in the case of another failure?

When using Performance Manager to analyze an application, you notice that the application has almost no writes but has an extremely high read hit ratio. Which kind of application does this profile most likely represent?

You want to configure Concurrent SRDF/Star using Enginuity 5874 and Solutions Enabler 7.x. The workload site will be at Site A, the synchronous target will be at Site B, and the asynchronous target will be at Site C.
Which type of RDF devices will be needed at each site?

A storage administrator has presented thin LUNs to a vSphere cluster from an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array. The vSphere administrator then uses those thin LUNs to create VMFS partitions to store virtual disks. When the vSphere administrator creates new virtual machines, a new 100 GB virtual disk was also created.
The virtual disks use 100 GB even though an operating system has not been installed on the guest. Why are the virtual disks using 100 GB of actual array space once they are created and before any data is put on them?

A company has a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 database running on Windows Server 2008.
The Windows server contains users with dynamic mailbox growth requirements. In order to efficiently use capacity while still allowing room for extended growth, the company is considering implementing virtual provisioning on their Symmetrix VMAX for this specific mailbox database.
The company is trying to determine which option to use when performing a volume format on the NTFS partition that will contain the mailbox database. Which option should be used and why?

A company wants to configure a three-site disaster tolerant SRDF solution. The production site will be at Site A, the nearby target will be at Site B, and the distant target at Site C. The company has large amounts of Symmetrix storage but wants to minimize the cost of network bandwidth.
Which data center solution would you recommend?

A company plans to lay out their Oracle 11g OLTP database across four EMC Symmetrix VMAX LUNs. Which Oracle component can be co-located with the control files without impacting performance?