EMC Exam Questions

What would you advise the customer?

A customer has an existing Unified VNX which is used only for block data. They are now looking to
consolidate a few Windows servers onto the VNX. There is empty space on existing pools, which
the customer is planning to use for file storage.
What would you advise the customer?

A.
Sharing pools is recommended by all performance experts.

B.
Microsoft doesn’t recommend sharing pools between servers and clients for better correlation
of I/O requests.

C.
Although not explicitly prohibited, best practices advises against sharing pools.

D.
Sharing pools is permitted as long as file data consists mostly of sparse files.