Four DRV devices are configured on an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array. As per current settings, a maximum of four simultaneous swaps and eight swaps per day are allowed in the Symmetrix.
Optimizer analyzes the back-end I/O and decides to swap.
How many swaps are allowed at the same time?

A company has a vSphere 5.0 environment attached to an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array. They have also installed PowerPath/VE on each host.
Which claim rule applies to control devices such as VCMDB and VMAX ACLX devices?

What is the finest level of backup granularity provided by Replication Manager for Microsoft SQL Server?

A company has decided to change the multi-path policy for all of the disks attached to their ESXi hosts. The environment consists of 16 ESXi hosts with 84 LUNs connected to each host.
Since the multi-path policy is applied at the LUN level, changing the policy is going to prove challenging. Thousands of changes will have to be made which will be time consuming.
What is the best way to make the necessary changes?

A company has just installed an update to their vSphere environment that requires VMware tools to be updated on all of their guests. The company has the SMC Virtual Appliance installed in their environment and it is functioning properly.
You notice the status for the VMware tools on the SMC virtual machine is out of date. When you attempt to upgrade the VMware tools on the SMC Virtual Appliance, you receive an error and the update fails.
What is most likely the cause?

EMC Symmetrix VMAX devices 0AB and 019 are allocated to a UNIX server:
Device 0AB is a two-member meta with a capacity of 50 GB
Device 019 is a standard device with a capacity of 100 GB
The storage administrator found that the utilization of device 019 is much higher than device 0AB.
How is the write pending limit allocated?

A storage administrator is planning to implement Dynamic Cache Partitioning (DCP) on an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array. There are five applications running on hosts attached to this array. The administrator wants to ensure that none of these applications have any effect on each other due to cache conflicts.
Which steps need to be completed to configure DCP?

You are planning to fill a large Symmetrix VMAX array with 15,000 rpm Fibre Channel drives and 7,200 rpm SATA drives. How can you ensure that every back-end director manages just one type of drive?

A server providing streaming video to clients is configured with storage from an EMC Symmetrix VMAX array. The data on this server is static and does not change. The file system for the videos is on a 600 GB striped metavolume made up from 8 x 75 GB standard RAID 5 devices.
The storage administrator is baselining the performance of the system using Performance Manager. The administrator notices that the “seq reads per sec” metric is much lower than expected for a heavy sequential read application.
What is the most likely reason for this situation?

Several months ago a company implemented a synchronous R1/R2 architecture with local clone protection enabled by Replication Manager for their Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment.
Recently a failure of the environmental systems led to a site-wide failure, including the Exchange server hardware. Site failover was initiated and the R2 volumes were mounted to a disaster recovery Exchange host.
When the company attempts to mount the databases, they receive a Jet_Page_Not_Found error and the databases will not mount. A tape backup is ordered from the offsite facility and used to restore a backup from several days ago.
Which action should be taken to ensure remote recoverability from disk of Exchange in the case of another failure?