When utilizing shared storage within a VMware vSphere 5.0 environment, what type of storage
should swap files be placed on?

A customer connected a new Microsoft Exchange 2010 server to their VMAX array. The server will
use Windows native MPIO. The customer asks which failover policy they should use for best
performance.
What do you recommend?

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A customer is bringing up a new ESX farm and will be provisioning 50TB of storage from
Symmetrix pool storage. They will create 25 2TB Data Stores which will be assigned to six
Storage Ports. What will be the size of the LUNS presented to the Cluster?

What are the EMC recommended symacl permissions that should be assigned for the Symmetrix
Service Processor?

A customer has asked, what would be the biggest advantage of implementing an ASM, Oracle 11g
application on an existing EMC Symmetrix array?

What are examples of metrics collected at the LUN and sub-LUN level by FAST VP during user
defined performance windows?

A new EMC customer recently installed their first VMAX and a complete suite of EMC
management tools. Their lead capacity planner attended training and has started monitoring the
VMAX. You receive a call and this person describes the measurements observed. During the
period of heaviest workload, reported throughput on certain Fibre Channel ports is nearing
150,000 KB/second but those ports display only about 10% utilization. What is the likely cause?

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A customer is implementing an Exchange environment on an EMC Symmetrix VMAX. The
environment will be deployed on 600 GB FC 15K drives using RAID 1 data protection. The
application generates 1350 I/O per second and has a 2:1 read/write ratio.
What is the minimum number of drives recommended to support the application?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left corner. A customer is implementing an Exchange

environment on an EMC Symmetrix VMAX. The environment will be deployed on 600 GB FC 15K
drives using RAID 5 data protection. The application generates 2000 I/O per second with an I/O
pattern that is 75% reads and 25% writes. What is the minimum number of drives recommended
to support the application?

When designing a VMware cluster, which VM storage adapter reduces CPU utilization and allows
high I/O throughputs?