A large enterprise is in the process of converting to a virtual data center as a first step toward cloud computing. They want the ability to deploy, manage, and decommission infrastructure components in a timely manner to meet their business requirements, with minimal impact to their systems administration staff.

What should be implemented?

An application development team of a stock trading firm requires a very complex testing environment that has to be re-deployed with each code revision. It usually takes a system administrator at least a day to rebuild the environment using imaging software.

How would virtualization benefit this firm?

A large company has multiple data centers with heterogeneous arrays of various sizes at each site. Some arrays are reaching maximum utilization, and other arrays are underutilized.

Which storage virtualization method would enable them to improve overall utilization across sites?

Why is it possible for Object-based Storage Devices (OSD) to achieve massive scale without significant performance impact?

What is a benefit of archiving data to the cloud using Atmos and FMA?

You are an EMC UIM administrator. You are in discussions with a business unit manager about how they want to create service offerings for their organization.

What might you recommend?

An administrator is configuring resources for a self-service portal. They have just completed grouping their storage resources into three categories, based on the organization’s corporate structure.

Which process did the administrator just complete?

Which method of storage virtualization provides the added benefit of wide striping?

Questions such as “Where is this application hosted?” and “How are support and escalation processes performed for this application?” are examples of which kind of sample score questions when considering utilizing a service provider?

A large enterprise has virtualized heavily in their data center. All virtual machines in the enterprise are built from standardized baseline templates. Based on these image templates, they have set configuration best practices and implementation workflows.

Recently, the company has started to see performance issues on several production-critical virtual guests. In responding to the performance issues, the cause was found to be incorrectly configured vNIC parameters in the virtual guests.

Which service should be implemented to identify deviations in the deployed servers from the baseline templates, and to remediate any such deviations?