E20-324 Exam Questions

Your customer needs help understanding Unisphere statistics on a VNX, specifically the Number of Write Cache Pages. How do you explain this metric to the customer?

A customer wants to write a script that needs to list all linked remote VNX arrays for file-based replication. What CLI command should you recommend?

You are preparing a detailed VNX presentation for a technically-oriented customer. VNX arrays have been in their environment for over a year. One objective of the meeting is to go...

A customer is experiencing a performance issue with a specific VNX file system. Analyzer showed that the utilization of several RAID Groups was in the red. The problematic file sys...

A customer is questioning whether their Unified VNX configuration is compliant with EMC VNX best practices. To start your evaluation, what information will you ask the customer's s...

A customer plans on using parallel NFS (pNFS) with the VNX. Which EMC document should be used to validate VNX support for pNFS?

You have advised your customer to upgrade their current CLARiiON storage array before migrating to a new VNX. The customer would like additional information about what benefits the...

Your customer is looking to consolidate their current Windows CIFS server virtualized on VMware to a purpose built file sharing device. Their environment consists oF. - 250-300 pow...

Your customer is looking to consolidate their current Windows CIFS server virtualized on VMware to a purpose built file sharing device. Their environment consists oF. - 250-300 pow...

You are doing performance analysis on a VNX5100 that is configured with three virtual pools. You determine that FAST Cache would benefit overall performance. Why are you unable to...

A customer wants your help in deciding if their existing VNX array can be used to do back up to disk, instead for tape backups. The customer has a unified VNX that is fully populat...

You are planning a technical refresh of a customer's CLARiiON storage array to a VNX. They have stated that the CLARiiON seems to perform slowly and believe that they require addit...

Your customer has established a new virtual pool of storage containing NL-SAS drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Recently they have noticed that performance on the entire array is a...

You are reviewing log files for a customer's application using Analyzer, and note the followinG. - NFS write size is 8 KiB LUN - Write size is 8 KiB - Disk write size is 32 KiB You...

Your customer's IT group configured a VNX array and created multiple RAID 5 (2+1) RAID Groups. They just realized their mistake and bought new drives. How would you bring the custo...

Your customer has two clustered SQL servers that require direct access to LUNs located on their VNX storage array. Both servers are located in the customer's main office. The VNX s...

Your customer needs to add additional capacity to their existing FAST VP which currently contains four Flash drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Which configurations can be added to...

Your customer has just purchased ten 1TB NL-SAS drives for their VNX array. This additional capacity will be used to archive their large image repository. Which configuration will...

After reviewing the design for their new VNX, your customer has requested further explanation of the hot spare algorithm used by the array. You propose the following scenario: - RA...

Your customer is designing a VNX file system using CIFS quotas with a supported third-party application. What software option is required to support this implementation?

Your customer is implementing a Unified VNX system leveraging CIFS general purpose file shares. They are implementing all virtual provisioning and FAST features to maximize storage...

Refer to the exhibit. While trying to maximize availability for CIFS clients, the customer has designed the following 10 Gb/s IP environment. What would you change in this design?

You get a call from the customer asking about Active Directory integration for user mapping. They have used EMC NAS products for over ten years and have extended the schema some ye...

A customer is concerned about UserMapper database and asks you what will happen to the VNX CIFS users if UserMapper is unavailable. What do you advise them?

Your customer has recently purchased a VNX for File. Due to the budget limits, they were unable to purchase enough SAS drives to create all of their required file shares. They woul...

Your customer is designing a CIFS application with very specific high CIFS I/O requirements. What is the best recommendation when designing the CIFS storage pool?

You are planning a file-only implementation where the customer will be using AVM. You want to make the best use of storage pools to preserve the performance of VNX. Which statement...

Your customer is using the front-end iSCSI ports on their VNX. They are experiencing long delays and reduced bandwidth as they add servers to their environment. Which option will i...

Your customer currently has a Block-only VNX. They now want to add file services to replace an older Windows Server cluster. You are planning to add the file option to the current...

A customer created a user-defined storage pool to physically segregate the file systems of a business unit. The customer was careful to select LUNs from different RAID Groups for t...

You are asked to design the backend layout for a large Unified Storage VNX. You find that the customer intends to use most of the disk space for block-level devices in the SAN. How...

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 p...

Your customer has recently deployed MS SharePoint using MS SQL as the backend database. Their deployment has grown to over 1 TiB in size and continues to increase approximately 10%...

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. A customer has an application requirement of 3000 IOPS with 60/40 read/write ratio and with 5 TiB storage capacity. The...

A customer is considering the VNX to support the SQL environment. What storage feature of the VNX provides the best performance for the SQL application?

A customer is planning on migrating their Exchange data to a VNX array. You have gathered the following information: - 6000 IOPS; 50% read/write ratio Calculating for RAID 5, what...

A customer has the following requirements for their ESX environment: - Three 500 GiB datastores - One 1 TiB datastore - One 7 TiB datastore Based on the datastore information, what...

After deploying their new VNX, your customer has inquired about features and tools to optimize their VMware environment. Which tools or feature enables efficient SCSI LUN reservati...

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. Your customer has the following requirements for their CIFS home directories: - Checkpoint every 10 minutes - Data reten...

A customer has purchased a VNX array and is in the process of allocating RAID 5 (4+1) storage. They have asked you for best practices on number and placement of LUNs for the Reserv...

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. A customer wants to add a SnapView snapshot to a 500 GiB LUN. Captured data show that the LUN performs 500 4 KiB IOPs wi...

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. A customer wants to add a SnapView snapshot to a 600 GiB LUN. Captured data show that the LUN has an access rate of 1000...

A snapshot is being used to perform a backup of the LUN. How can the backup activity impact the host performance on the source LUN?

A customer would like to implement SnapView but has expressed concern about performance. Which applications will cause performance issues?

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. Customer requirements call for a SnapView snapshot to be made of a clone prior to resynchronization. The source LUN is 2...

Click on the calculator icon in the upper left-hand corner. Customer requirements call for a SnapView snapshot to be made of a clone prior to resynchronization. The source LUN is 5...

A customer requests to have 90 SnapSure checkpoints for every file system. After an interview with the administrator, you learn that the company has to comply with an industry requ...

Your customer has recently seen a significant increase in overall useable capacity of their CIFS file shares after enabling file-based deduplication. They have also noticed a signi...

Your customer is running Exchange 2007 with VSS. They have just purchased RecoverPoint/SE. Which replication options are supported for their Exchange 2007 environment?

Your customer is planning to implement RecoverPoint for local replication. They have several CLARiiON CX-4 arrays, two Celerras and a VNX array. They have the following hosts in th...