A new CLARiiON customer is interested in thin LUN provisioning. The customer requires
consistent performance on their applications.
What should you suggest to this customer?

A customer has a mix of Windows, Solaris, and HP-UX servers connected to a CLARiiON. They
want to move the data for the Solaris hosts that is currently on RAID 1/0 groups to RAID 5 groups.

Which tools should be used to determine the recommended RAID 5 disk configuration?

A Symmetrix VMAX customer has requested a solution for tiering within their array. They would
like to move data between Flash drives and SATA II drives.
What would you recommend?

A customer is evaluating an NS-480 and an NS-G2 as a solution for their NAS environment. They
are unsure of the differences between the models and require further explanation. They currently
have a CX3-40 with a substantial amount of available disk space that they would like to present as
NAS volumes.
Which statement about the required equipment is correct?

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A customer is planning to migrate their Exchange server to a CLARiiON array using 15k drives.
The customer has the following requirements:
– RAID 5 (7+1)
– 3000 IOPS
– 50% Reads
– 50% Writes
What is the minimum number of 15k (180 IOPS) drives required?

A customer data center has several large Fibre Channel SANs supporting AIX, HP-UX, Solaris,
Windows, NetWare, and Linux platforms. They have dedicated a portion of their gigabit network
for iSCSI traffic. The customer is considering a strategy of using iSCSI for every new host that will
run lower performance, non-critical applications.
When evaluating this environment, what should be the first consideration?

Your customer has a constantly changing SAN environment. They need to conceptualize, design,
and simulate physical and logical SAN changes for availability and performance.
Which EMC product best meets these requirements?

Which statement concerning deduplication and compression is correct for a Data Domain
environment?

An EMC NetWorker customer ran a full backup on Saturday and cumulative backups on Monday
and Tuesday. An incremental backup was run on Wednesday and another cumulative backup on
Thursday.
On Friday, the backup administrator discovers he must recover the file system. How many
restores must he run in order to recover all data?

A potential EMC Centera customer has the following requirements, in order of priority, for archive
storage:
1 – Enhanced collision resistance
2 – Enhanced performance
3 – Optimum storage utilization
Which configuration combination should you propose?