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E20-880 · Question #18
A customer has a VNX system to provide storage for a VMware 4.1 Cluster with four ESX hosts. The ESX hosts are running Exchange servers and other application servers. The customer is using a virtual…
The correct answer is A. VMFS for the boot volumes; RDM in physical mode for the mail store volumes. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
A customer has a VNX system to provide storage for a VMware 4.1 Cluster with four ESX hosts. The ESX hosts are running Exchange servers and other application servers. The customer is using a virtual machine as a Replication Manager. A VMware proxy host is used to get crash- consistent replicas for the Exchange mail stores. Which volume access type is recommended for the Exchange servers?
Options
- AVMFS for the boot volumes; RDM in physical mode for the mail store volumes
- BVMFS for the boot volumes; RDM in virtual mode for the mail store volumes
- CVMFS for boot; mail store volumes in EagerZeroedThick mode
- DVMFS for boot; mail store volumes in LazyZeroedThick mode
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- C11% (5)
- D2% (1)
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