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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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(45 responses)
  • A
    82% (37)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
    11% (5)
  • D
    2% (1)

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