The customer is looking to deploy a large SQL environment to a ESXi cluster. The main I/O
Load of the environment will be OLTP, with a high rate of transactions. Which Raid Type
should this environment deploy?

The links between an R1/R2 pair are logically suspended and a half swap is performed on
the R2 device. What describes the RDF pair configuration?

What is a write pending slot in a Symmetrix VMAX?

A customer plans to deploy Oracle on their new EMC VMAX. They are concerned about the
performance of the redo log files. You recommend isolating these files to their own set of
disks and deploying them on striped metavolumes. Why would you recommend striped
metavolumes?

You have been tasked with gathering performance data for a clustered Microsoft SQL
server database that will be migrated to a Symmetrix VMAX. Which Perfmon counter must
you measure prior to designing a disk layout?

You are planning the deployment of a new Symmetrix VMAX array for two different
applications. The two applications should not share back-end directors, ports, or disks. How
should you allocate the storage for the two applications?

A customer recently reconfigured their Exchange 2010 environment. They placed the log
and system files on the L:\ drive and mounted the mailbox stores on L:\SG1DBMP. They
report they updated the associated Replication Manager replica job to reflect the change,
but the mounts to the backup server fail. What do you advise the customer?