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 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?

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 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?

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?

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?

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 existing EMC Data Domain customer is evaluating new backup software and hardware for their
environment. Their current environment consists of a single data center along with several remote
sites.
The customer is interested in consolidating all backup hardware into their primary data center
while still being able to do remote backups. In addition, they want the ability to perform backups
directly to tape for certain applications in order to send the tapes offsite for long-term retention.
The customer plans to keep their current Data Domain system as part of any new configuration.
However, they want to look at options to optimize performance without adding additional
infrastructure.
The final requirement is that the entire solution be managed from a single unified interface in order
to configure and track backup jobs. Which EMC solutions can address these requirements?

A customer is currently running Data Protection Advisor. Over time, concerns have been
expressed about performance degradation. After a complete review, you discovered that
performance was being impacted due to data gathered by Collectors being maintained with
configuration data.
What is the most likely reason for keeping these two types of data separate?

An EMC Data Domain customer has ordered two expansion shelves to increase the active tier
storage capacity for backup. After successfully installing the new expansion shelves, the Data
Domain GUI does not display the increased capacity.
What is the reason for this issue?