You work as a design specialist at Certkiller .com. You are conducting a storage operations assessment. You have determined where Certkiller .com needs to be.
What is your next step?

You work as a design specialist at Certkiller .com. You back up a database from clones on a dedicated media server. The media server is connected to an array via six HBAs through two fabrics without ISLs to six Fas with a 1:1 fan out ratio. The backup is multi-threaded to eight LTO II tape drives attached to an independent fabric. Statistics show the backup time=recovery time=8 hours at a host transfer rate of 360 GB/hour.
What would be your best achievable backup/recovery time?

You are employed as the Storage Administrator (SA) at Certkiller .com. You need to perform a Data center migration of one Symmetrix frame that supports 12 servers. Swing boxes have been installed at each site and new servers at the destination site. What is the most important release management document to develop before your first dry run?

You work as a design specialist at Certkiller .com. You are in the “Determining Perspective” phase of an ILM assessment. Certkiller .com decides to decentralize business functions. What is the next question you should ask business management?

You work as the network administrator at Certkiller .com. Certkiller .com has two switches in a high availability configuration.
What is EMC’s supported upper limits for the maximum of ISLs between the switches?

You work as a design specialist at Certkiller .com. You need to assess the risk of applying a new code patch to the production environment. Data loss can occur if the patch is not applied. The patch has been distributed as a critical fix.
What should be your first step?

You work as a design specialist at Certkiller .com. Certkiller .com wants to fully utilize the available capacity of a partially field DMX 3000 storage array, including the remaining small space at the end each drive. However, this will create hundreds of 0.9 GB devices.
Why would you not support the implementing this solution?

With regard to the design of a Symmetric 8530 environment, which of the following is the most current design rule?

Which of the following is the primary focus of Business Continuity Management (BCM)?

You work as a network storage design specialist at Certkiller .com. Certkiller .com has a database server that uses O/S based volume management and HDS storage. Transaction request sizes are less then 2 KB. The value of maximum physical extents per volume is equal to the current volume size (approximately 9 GB based on the HDS Open 9s standard) divided by the extent size.
Certkiller .com has decided to consolidate this server into a SAN attached DMX with 73 GB drives. You need to develop a design and migration plan.
What would be your main concern?