You are discussing EMC virtualization products with a customer. The customer informs you that the company has not had much success with appliance-based virtualization. It would like to leverage its new SAN infrastructure without the use of an in-band appliance. Which EMC storage virtualization solution meets the customer requirement?

A customer manages a large heterogeneous SAN environment. Over the last year, they’ve noticed that backups are not completing within backup windows and the monthly tape costs have significantly increased.
Management requests that the backup team identify issues in the current environment and put a plan together that will allow better planning for growth in the future. Additionally they want to implement chargeback to internal customers.
Which product will help them plan and manage the environment?

You have a customer that is considering replacing a Network Appliance solution with a Celerra NS80. The customer currently supports CIFS and NFS, but none of the existing file systems are accessed by both CIFS and NFS. The customer requires that migration happen with minimal downtime or end-user impact. Which solution do you recommend?

A customer has deployed VMware to consolidate a set of 150 Windows servers. Most of the VMs have low I/O requirements, but several database servers were encapsulated in VMs. They are now experiencing performance issues on the database servers. The VMware infrastructure uses VMFS and .vmdk files for each VM. Which VMware storage allocation policy directly allocates LUNs for the database VMs?

A customer asks you what EMC is doing to secure its product lines in the long term. Which two security initiatives might you mention?

For a new customer, you are asked to help add disaster recovery for its CIFS environment. You have sold two Celerra gateway servers, and would like to be able to isolate and replicate CIFS environments between physical Data Movers for ease of Windows disaster recovery management. What Celerra feature would simplify CIFS replication?

Your customer would like to replace older Connectrix SAN switches. You are designing a new core-edge fabric, with MDS-9513 core directors. The customer expressed a concern about isolating device malfunction and user errors to individual fabrics. Which feature of the MDS-9513 addresses the customer concern?

ABC Company called complaining that storage is growing out of control on its DMX-3. Recently, the deployment schedule for SAP was cut in half, so this customer now has several developers each wanting a separate copy of the Oracle database for application development and testing.
ABC is using TimeFinder/Clone to manage the requirements today. Which tool can be used to reduce the storage requirements for developers?

One of your customer’s main concerns is the possibility of data loss in the event of the second drive failing during a rebuild.
What would you implement on a Symmetrix to address this concern?

Which EMC solution provides the ability to perform tape shredding in compliance with strict regulatory requirements?