What is a benefit of port channeling in MDS-series switches/directors?

ABC.com is deploying a new Microsoft Exchange environment and has requested assistance with
the associated disk design. They are deploying Exchange for 850 users with an average of 3 I/Os
per user. They expect a 60% read and 40% write distribution. The customer would like to know the
number of disks required for both RAID 5 and RAID 1/0 DMX configurations with 15k rpm drives.
How many disks are required for each configuration type?

ABC.com’s network security engineer has attended a lecture on the various security weaknesses
of storage protocols. The security engineer is concerned about WWN spoofing attacks against
their DMX-3.
Which Symmetrix feature could you discuss that will reduce the customer’s concerns?

Exhibit:

Your work as an administrator at ABC.com. Please study the exhibit carefully. : Which SAN
topology is an EMC best practice?

ABC.com, who uses Windows and AIX servers in its environment, is a nation-wide home building
company that currently employs a CLARiiON CX600 with ninety 73GB drives for its data
processing needs. This data is spread across fifty RAID-5 40GB LUNs. ABC.com creates Clones
of their data for daily backups and weekly reports, both of which are read-intensive applications.
ABC.comneeds to create a further copy of its production data, for future development and testing
of new applications. This copy of the data will be write-intensive. ABC.comis not keen on
expending yet another full copy of data storage for its development and test requirements. Which
of the following solutions would you advise ABC.comto use?

ABC.com is interested in a solution that provides detailed reports on all the files, filesystems,
Oracle database, SQL Server databases and Exchange servers in its environment. What
information would you need to gather in order to design a suitable solution?

You are performing an assessment at a large ABC.com site. In an effort to gain information on IT
processes, you have a productive meeting about it with the IT manager. What else will ensure that
you understand ABC.com’s use of the process?

ABC.com has purchased a new SAN environment consisting of dual HBA Sun servers running
Solaris, two McData switches a CLARiiON CX700 array and Veritas Volume Manager 4.0
software. It would like to use path failover software that provides redundancy and dynamic load
balancing on the Sun solaris servers. What is the best path failover software to fit this company
needs?

Exhibit:

Your work as an administrator at ABC.com. Please study the exhibit carefully. ABC.com migrated
OLTP applications from servers with direct storage to new servers using a CLARiiON array. Users
are complaining about poor application performance. The information in the exhibit is availability
for your review: Your hypothesis is that caching characteristics on the CLARiiON array are not
appropriate. What is the best method to validate this hypothesis?

You are a system administrator For ABC.com. For part of ABC.com’s environment, their backup
policy includes weekly fulls and daily incrementals. You are forced to reinstall a server and
perform a full data recovery, following a virus attack. This result in different sets of tapes (one full
and several incrementals) being required and causes the completion of recovery to toke a long
time. In future, what can you do to lessen the time it takes to complete a full recovery?