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E20-816 · Question #71

A new EMC customer recently installed their first VMAX and a complete suite of EMC management tools. Their lead capacity planner attended training and has started monitoring the VMAX. You receive a…

The correct answer is B. I/O block size is very large. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

A new EMC customer recently installed their first VMAX and a complete suite of EMC management tools. Their lead capacity planner attended training and has started monitoring the VMAX. You receive a call and this person describes the measurements observed. During the period of heaviest workload, reported throughput on certain Fibre Channel ports is nearing 150,000 KB/second but those ports display only about 10% utilization. What is the likely cause?

Options

  • AI/O block size is very small
  • BI/O block size is very large
  • CStriped metavolumes report invalid IOPS
  • DSequential prefetch skews throughput %

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