A customer is preparing to upgrade their Microsoft Exchange environment from Exchange 2003 to
Exchange 2007. They currently use Replication Manager to clone the databases on a regular
interval and would like to use one of the clones to perform the upgrade. The customer has asked
you to provide any considerations that they need to be aware of to accomplish this.
What must you tell the customer?

What type of I/O is generated by Oracle redo logs?

You are having a detailed conversation with an Oracle DBA who needs to understand EMC
Enterprise Flash Drive (EFD) technology. The DBA is trying to determine if EFD technology would
help improve their database performance.
What would be a key performance parameter that would help determine if Flash drives will
improve Oracle database performance?

A DBA and a storage administrator are discussing the possibilities of implementing an ASM
environment for their Oracle 11g database. The current database application is showing 80%
storage capacity utilization and performance is starting to impact the business.
How would deployment of ASM help the customer?

How can you enhance the speed of database creation, restores, and data file growth in an SQL
Server environment?

Your customer is planning to migrate a SQL Server environment hosted on a Symmetrix to a
CLARiiON. They have enabled “SafeWrite” for DB volumes on the Symmetrix, which protects any
pending writes that are being overwritten by new writes to the same area in global memory. The
customer wants to know why this configuration setting is not available on the CLARiiON.
How would you respond to this query?

You are working with a customer for whom high availability has become a priority because of

recent outages. They would like to eliminate all single points of failure in their SAN infrastructure.
Which SAN topology would help them achieve their goal?

A customer has many remote sites with limited bandwidth and fewer than five servers in those
locations. The customer likes to back up the servers in these remote sites to their central data
center.
They are looking at various deduplication-based backup applications and have asked you to
explain what makes EMC Avamar a better fit for the environment that has bandwidth limitations.
Which Avamar design feature addresses the customer’s question?

What is a benefit of using Avamar with vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) for VMware
backups as opposed to other methods of backing up VMware with Avamar?

A potential customer has asked you to describe the DR options available for an EMC Centera
archive.
What replication options should you discuss with the customer?