E20-326 Exam Questions

Refer to the exhibit. A company plans to deploy a two-engine Symmetrix VMAX array in their VMware vSphere environment. The ESXi hosts will be connected to the VMAX array over a FC...

You are assigned to design a storage solution for a customer's Oracle OLTP environment. The current configuration is having performance issues and users have complained about slow...

Which statement is true relative to host-level performance measurement?

You are designing the Symmetrix VMAX architecture for a DAS-to-SAN SQL Server migration. Currently all user databases reside on a single locally-attached disk enclosure, mounted to...

A customer asked you to design a storage solution for their new call center application. This is a new EMC customer and they do not have any existing storage infrastructure. Before...

Which host-based performance tool should be used to gather data for Linux systems?

You are designing the Symmetrix VMAX architecture for a DAS-to-SAN SQL Server migration. Currently all user databases reside on a single locally-attached disk enclosure, mounted to...

A proposed SRDF/S solution was modeled with BCSD. The model assumed that the source array had 4 GigE ports. The RA Utilization chart shows the maximum utilization is at 70%. How ma...

You are designing the Symmetrix VMAX architecture for a DAS-to-SAN SQL Server migration. Currently all user databases reside on a single, locally-attached disk enclosure, mounted t...

You are designing the Symmetrix VMAX architecture for a DAS-to-SAN SQL Server migration. Currently all user databases reside on a single, locally-attached disk enclosure, mounted t...

A proposed SRDF/S solution was modeled with BCSD using host-based data. The BCSD model assumed two-engine VMAX arrays with SRDF Fibre ports. The RA Utilization chart shows a maximu...

A proposed SRDF/S solution was modeled with BCSD using host-based data. The BCSD model assumed two-engine VMAX arrays with SRDF Fibre ports. The Compressed Throughput chart shows t...

What is a supported mode combination for disk-based Cascaded SRDF?

You are designing an SRDF/A solution with Symmetrix VMAX 40K arrays. TimeFinder/Snap will be used to replicate the remote devices. What is a design consideration?

You are designing an SRDF/A DSE solution. The production application is expected to generate approximately 1500 4 KB write operations every second. The DSE pool will have RAID 5 (3...

A customer plans to configure a storage pool on their new Symmetrix VMAX 20K. The pool must be able to withstand a dual drive failure and still offer guaranteed data access. Which...

As a general rule when designing a Symmetrix VMAX array, which maximum percentage of utilization should be maintained for performance critical configurations?

A customer has several internal organizational units with very different requirements for their unique lines of business applications. Which approach provides the most optimal syst...

A customer has several internal organizational units with different requirements for their unique lines of business applications. Which approach provides the most predictable perfo...

A customer plans to configure their new Symmetrix VMAX 20K. They want your advice on how to configure a storage pool. This new storage pool will handle large block, sequential writ...

A customer plans to configure their new Symmetrix VMAX 20K. They want your advice on how to configure a storage pool. This new storage pool will handle random write I/O What should...

A customer plans to migrate UNIX and Microsoft Windows clusters from another vendor's array to an EMC Symmetrix. You are responsible for the design of the VMAX 20K solution that is...

You are working for a customer as an architect, designing a new Symmetrix VMAX to replace multiple DMX arrays. Which tool should be used to design system components based on worklo...

A Symmetrix VMAX hosts four applications. Each application is assigned a named Dynamic Cache Partition. Two of the partitions are static and two are flexible. The write pending lim...

A Symmetrix VMAX has been configured with Dynamic Cache Partitioning. What criterion must be met for a cache slot to be eligible for donation?

A customer is using Virtual Provisioning on a Symmetrix VMAX that is being shared for production and non-production workloads. What can be used to separate the different workloads?

What can be used to monitor free space in a thin pool on a Symmetrix VMAX?

What is a valid action when a Symmetrix VMAX thin pool is nearly full?

Which host-based performance tool should be used to gather data for Microsoft Windows systems?

Which action is part of the analysis and design of a synchronous data protection solution for a Symmetrix VMAX implementation?

A customer plans to migrate mainframe and UNIX hosts from another vendor's array to an EMC Symmetrix. You are responsible for the design of the VMAX 20K solution that is to be repl...

By default, how much storage is allocated when a thin device is bound to a pool?