An existing EMC Avamar customer wants to start backing up their VMware environment. The
customer requires the ability to perform file level restores of their Microsoft Windows clients and is
concerned about any potential negative impact of backups on the ESX server. In addition, there is
a short backup window so it is important that backups complete as fast as possible.

Which backup method will meet the customer’s needs?

A customer wants to back up VMware using EMC Avamar to leverage deduplication. They want to
use the VMware Image Backup option. Which component of the backup environment requires the
Avamar client agent?

A new customer wants to use EMC NetWorker to protect the servers in their environment. One of
their requirements is that NetWorker be configured with the NetWorker server clustered for high
availability.
What is required for the NetWorker server to be used in this configuration?

A customer has decided on EMC Avamar as a solution. They are trying to decide on the amount of
nodes to purchase. They want maximum storage capacity.
What is a recommended maximum number of data nodes for an initial Avamar server
configuration?

Which features will have a negative impact on the performance of an EMC Data Domain system?

A new EMC Avamar customer is concerned with data security since all backup data is stored on
disk. To minimize the customer’s concerns, you have recommended the encryption-at-rest feature.
What is a consideration when using this feature?

A customer has a new EMC Avamar server with four 3.9 TB data nodes. This server is backing up
two Avamar clients. The first client has 8 GB of RAM and two file systems. The first file system has
3 million files consuming .75 TB. The second file system contains 5 million files consuming 1 TB of
space. The second client has 10 GB of RAM and one file system containing 4 million files is
consuming 1.2 TB of space. Both clients will belong to the same backup group.
How long will the steady state backup group be expected to run?

A customer’s backup solution is reaching the end of warranty. The customer has installed an
Avamar solution for their file server and ESX servers. They want to move all the backups to this
environment.
Deduplication for the databases is critical and they want to maintain the EMC Data Domain VTL.
In order to integrate Data Domain into the Avamar installation, which hardware and software
options need to be installed on the Data Domain system?

Your customer has been a long time Avamar Virtual Environment (AVE) customer. They have
older AVE installations along with newer installations. They notice that older configurations are not
receiving the same performance as the newer configurations.
The customer points out that both configurations have fairly high I/O requirements but use different
disk pools. They understand performance is affected by RAID levels and would like your
recommendation.
Based on best practice, which RAID level is recommended for virtual machines with high disk
usage?

A customer currently has a multi-node EMC Avamar solution with eight active storage nodes. They
are currently at 85% GSAN capacity and receiving capacity warning messages. The customer
would like to purchase additional capacity for the system.
What is a best practice for adding capacity?