A customer has a multivendor storage strategy, but has complained about the amount of management needed to maintain the environment. The customer is curious about storage consolidation but is concerned about performance in a consolidated environment. To address this concern, which Symmetrix feature should be discussed?

A customer is evaluating storage systems from several vendors. They asked you why they should choose a CLARiiON over the competition. The customer is aware of CLARiiON’s excellent price/performance and ease of use.
Which two (2) additional reasons should you mention?

Before a new EMC ControlCenter implementation, your customer’s storage administrator tells you that a most critical concern is tracking user activity within the environment. The customer wants to track the following details:
-Critical user actions by user and action
-Unsuccessful access attempts
-Objects of user actions
-Time of user actions

Which EMC ControlCenter feature should you discuss with the storage administrator to respond to these requirements?

A customer has a large OLTP application that spans several source arrays and is protected by SRDF.
The customer is concerned that the application will not be restartable if they lose one of the source arrays at 12:00 and the remaining arrays at 12:03. Which feature would address this concern?

XYZ Corporation has recently acquired a secondary data center that is approximately 800 km from its primary data center location. The storage environment at the primary site consists of:
Windows servers only CLARiiON storage system 3 TB of data to be replicated XYZ will purchase a CLARiiON system for the secondary data center, and is looking for a scalable and cost-effective replication solution.
Which EMC replication solution should you propose in this case?

A customer’s information infrastructure supports multiple critical applications. Most applications, representing 95% of the information, require block-level access. One application, generating 5% of the information, must conform to stringent government regulations for data retention and authenticity.
What type of storage infrastructure should the customer deploy?

Your customer would like to implement an EMC Celerra. The customer would like to be able to use an aggregation standard to provide statistical network load sharing by connecting different clients to different ports. Which Celerra network high availability feature meets this requirement?

A customer has a RAID 1 protected volume and SRDF implemented. If the customer configures a BCV for this volume, how many mirror positions will remain available?

Your customer is purchasing their first DMX. This customer already has a competitor’s SRM software. The customer wants a GUI-based tool for managing the new DMX, but also wants to avoid another database server if possible. What should you propose?

You have a customer that is moving to a new data center that is 20 km from its current location.
The customer has a heterogeneous storage environment and would like to consolidate all existing storage onto four new CX3-80s. Which replication technology would you recommend to complete the migration?