You are assisting a company with planning a new VMware environment. The hosts will be
connected to a VNX array using two HBAs and two Fibre Channel switches. The host initiators will
be configured in ALUA mode and will have multiple paths to the VNX.
The customer wants to take advantage of the multiple paths for increased performance. Any
trespassed LUNs should be handled without manual intervention from their SAN administrator.

Which multi-pathing solution is a viable option for this company?

A customer new to EMC, is upgrading from a simple JBOD array to a VNX array. They plan to
deploy MS Exchange 2010 on the VNX and have asked you for recommended best practices.
Which statement is correct?

A customer will connect Oracle OLTP and Oracle DSS servers to a new VNX array. They ask if
FAST VP should be enabled for each application’s LUNs.
For which applications’ LUNs should you recommend FAST VP be enabled?

A customer is deploying Microsoft Exchange 2010 to a user base that will be significantly
increasing over the next 2 years. What VNX configuration will offer the highest level of
performance and storage efficiency for this environment?

A customer plans to deploy a SQL server farm on their fully virtually provisioned VNX array. They
want to make sure the SQL volumes always get the best performance.
To what should initial data placement be set?

When designing storage for SQL Server 2012 transaction log files, how should you allocate
storage space?

A customer will connect Oracle OLTP and Oracle DSS servers to a new VNX array. They ask if
FAST Cache should be enabled for each application’s LUNs.
For which applications LUNs should you recommend FAST Cache be enabled?

An administrator allocated two LUNs on a VNX for the Exchange 2010 mailstore and logs. The
Exchange 2010 server is a VM under vSphere 5.1. How should those LUNs be presented to the
virtual machine?

What is the maximum time (in seconds) that VSS will stop Exchange I/O processing when VSS
creates an application-aware point in time copy?

A host with visibility to a VNX Snapshot is attached to a Storage Mount Point (SMP). The user has
detached the original Snapshot and then attached a later Snapshot to the SMP.
What must the user do to make the new point in time data visible to the host?