EMC Exam Questions

What is the fan-in ratio?

Your customer wants to add more servers to its existing storage array. The array is connected to several switches, which are linked together into two separate fabrics. Each host has two HBAs for redundancy. You tell the customer that you have to consider the fan-in ratio. What is the fan-in ratio?

A.
A measure of the theoretical utilization of an ISL

B.
How many frames can be sent to a receiving port when flow control is in effect

C.
Qualified maximum number of initiators that can access a single storage port through a SAN

D.
Qualified maximum number of storage ports that can be accessed by a single initiator through a SAN