An existing EMC Avamar customer wants to start backing up their VMware environment.
The customer requires the ability to perform file level restores of their Microsoft Windows
clients and is concerned about any potential negative impact of backups on the ESX server.
In addition, there is a short backup window so it is important that backups complete as fast
as possible. Which backup method will meet the customer’s needs?

A customer wants to back up VMware using EMC Avamar to leverage deduplication. They
want to use the VMware Image Backup option. Which component of the backup
environment requires the Avamar client agent?

A new customer wants to use EMC NetWorker to protect the servers in their environment.
One of their requirements is that NetWorker be configured with the NetWorker server
clustered for high availability. What is required for the NetWorker server to be used in this
configuration?

A customer has decided on EMC Avamar as a solution. They are trying to decide on the
amount of nodes to purchase. They want maximum storage capacity. What is a
recommended maximum number of data nodes for an initial Avamar server configuration?

Which features will have a negative impact on the performance of an EMC Data Domain

system?

A new EMC Avamar customer is concerned with data security since all backup data is
stored on disk. To minimize the customer’s concerns, you have recommended the
encryption-at-rest feature. What is a consideration when using this feature?

A customer has a new EMC Avamar server with four 3.9 TB data nodes. This server is

backing up two Avamar clients. The first client has 8 GB of RAM and two file systems. The
first file system has 3 million files consuming .75 TB. The second file system contains 5
million files consuming 1 TB of space. The second client has 10 GB of RAM and one file
system containing 4 million files is consuming 1.2 TB of space. Both clients will belong to
the same backup group. How long will the steady state backup group be expected to run?

A customer’s backup solution is reaching the end of warranty. The customer has installed
an Avamar solution for their file server and ESX servers. They want to move all the backups
to this environment. Deduplication for the databases is critical and they want to maintain the
EMC Data Domain VTL. In order to integrate Data Domain into the Avamar installation,
which hardware and software options need to be installed on the Data Domain system?

Your customer has been a long time Avamar Virtual Environment (AVE) customer. They
have older AVE installations along with newer installations. They notice that older
configurations are not receiving the same performance as the newer configurations. The
customer points out that both configurations have fairly high I/O requirements but use
different disk pools. They understand performance is affected by RAID levels and would like
your recommendation. Based on best practice, which RAID level is recommended for virtual
machines with high disk usage?

A customer currently has a multi-node EMC Avamar solution with eight active storage
nodes. They are currently at 85% GSAN capacity and receiving capacity warning
messages. The customer would like to purchase additional capacity for the system. What is
a best practice for adding capacity?