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?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left corner. 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?

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 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?