A customer is considering an EMC Avamar backup solution. They want to know whether Avamar
can provide the security benefit of data encryption between the clients and the Avamar server.
What are the in-flight encryption considerations?

An EMC Avamar customer is unable to successfully complete a nightly backup of a large file
server within their defined backup window. The server is a single quad core system with 2 GBs of
RAM. The file system data is being stored on a RAID 5 SAN disk.
Currently, the server has 7 million files totaling 1 TB of data spread across three volumes. The
Avamar agent was installed and configured using the default settings.
What should be recommended to increase the performance of the nightly backup?

You have suggested to a customer that a Data Deduplication Assessment A (DDA:A) would help
them evaluate deduplication in their environment. What would you recommend after the
completion of the DDA:A scan?

A customer has an Avamar system that has reached 100% of maximum capacity. The
environment consists of a 16 active data node system.
What can be done to decrease the utilized capacity?

A customer has difficulty keeping up with their restore requests on their existing backup solution.
Currently each restore requires the backup team to engage and manually process each restore
request. The customer wants the clients to be able to restore and browse their own data using
only their account credentials.
Which EMC solution meets the customer’s requirements?

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?

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’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?

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 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?