A system administrator needs to migrate all virtual machines in a vSphere datastore from an EMC Symmetrix DMX3 to a VMAX. The virtual machines will be migrated individually to minimize the impact to the ESX hosts. The virtual machines must remain online during the migration.
Which migration approach meets all the objectives?

Multiple production workloads on an EMC Symmetrix array experience performance issues during the backup window. Even though backups are written to SATA devices and production workloads reside on EFD and FC devices, response times for the production hosts degrade during the backup window and quickly recover thereafter.
During the backup window, the Symmetrix is consistently approaching the system write pending limit. What is the best way to provide predictable and controlled service levels for the production workloads?

You are planning the deployment of a VMware vSphere environment with EMC Symmetrix VMAX arrays. Each ESXi cluster will host at least 100 virtual machines.
Which storage allocation will provide optimal performance and scalability?

You work in the SAN engineering department for a company that has deployed their Microsoft Exchange 2010 application on EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage arrays across multiple site locations. The VMAX storage arrays utilize SRDF for disaster recovery. You are required to enforce thin pool utilization limits to avoid any performance implications that could arise from over-subscription.
Which two thin pool parameters should be used?

A database administrator is implementing a new production database in Oracle 11g for Oracle RAC hosts attached to an EMC Symmetrix. The storage for the redo logs need to be provisioned.
How should the metavolume be configured for redo logs?

When formatting Symmetrix volumes for use with Microsoft SQL Server online transaction processing databases, which allocation unit size should be selected?

A storage administrator is planning to implement Dynamic Cache Partitioning (DCP) on an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array. There are 17 applications running on hosts attached to this array.
Which steps need to be completed before the final configuration of DCP?

An EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage array is hosting multiple Microsoft Exchange 2010 servers in a virtualized infrastructure. Replication Manager is being used with TimeFinder/Clone to provide backups of the Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment with Microsoft Volume Shadow Service (VSS).
Each hypervisor has two HBAs which are zoned into separate fabrics with four FAs from the Symmetrix VMAX in each fabric. The hypervisors host four Exchange 2010 servers that contain 20 databases each. When presenting the RDMs to the hypervisors using Auto-Provisioning, some of the RDMs are not visible.
What could be the issue?

A storage administrator is configuring Optimizer on an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array. The array is configured entirely with RAID 5 (3+1) devices. All devices are 8 GB and all devices are R1 devices with SRDF/A mirrors on a remote array.
Optimizer has completed the first cycle of performance analysis and has recommended a large number of device swaps to balance the activity on the array. The storage administrator has been asked to minimize the time it takes to complete all the swaps.
What is the minimum number of DRV devices that the administrator needs to configure?

Some applications on an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array are remotely replicated with SRDF/S.
Symmetrix Priority Controls (SPC) is used to improve performance of these applications.
When will SPC be most effective?