A company is evaluating SRDF/Star. They are concerned that the RDF daemon represents
a single point of failure. How could this concern be addressed?

Refer to the exhibit. Host C is the remote site to an existing production site, Host A in the
illustration. Host D is remote site to Host B. The customer would like to have data-at-rest
protection for host A and data-in-flight protection for Host B. Which Symmetrix Security
features would be required?

Within a VMAX storage environment, what would be a benefit of implementing OFA (Oracle
Flexible Architecture) supporting an Oracle database application environment?

A company has a VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0 host. They have been noticing performance
issues when they receive bursts of heavy I/O workloads after a relatively low period of CPU
utilization. Which measure could be taken in the VM configuration to alleviate this issue?

An SRDF/Star customer wants to move their production from the current workload site to
one of the target sites. Which operational step is necessary before executing the symstar
halt command?

You have been requested to design a Symmetrix VMAX FAST-VP storage solution. When
considering skew, what is a primary performance metric that should be used during the
design process?

A customer is implementing a new ESXi cluster and will be provisioning 50TB of storage
from Symmetrix Pool Storage. The size of the LUNS being presented is 150GB. Based on
EMC Best Practices, on how many storage ports should LUNS be presented?

A Symmetrix VMAX storage array is designed for performance with the following
configuration: 4 engines 128 GB cache per engine 1152 FC 15K drives Workloads will be
segregated What will be the limiting factor for performance?

A customer has several Solaris 10 hosts that they will connect via FC to an EMC VMAX.
The hosts are all dual-pathed with PowerPath installed. Each host will be assigned 5
volumes on the VMAX. Each volume will be an 8-member metavolume. What is the actual
throttle depth for each Solaris host?

A large customer has a formal Capacity and Performance Management (CPM) department.
This customer’s business users describe the environment as both good and challenged.
They are acutely aware when there are performance short-falls or insufficient storage
resources available. How would you categorize this Performance Management style?