A new 500 GB VM disk is created on a database that resides on an XtremIO LUN. The VMware administrator plans to provision the disk using the thick provisioned eager zeroed format.
How much physical XtremIO capacity will be allocated during this process?
A customer has recently deployed an XtremIO 20 TB two X-Brick cluster to run an existing instance of Oracle RAC previously leveraging VNX for back-end storage. The application environment uses a block size of 1 MB. Multiple tables are in use with the PARALLEL_DEGREE_POLICY variable set to AUTO.
The customer wants your help with tuning the DB_FILE_MULTIBLOCK_READ_COUNT parameter for best performance with XtremIO. Which values should be recommended for tuning the DB_FILE_MULTIBLOCK_READ_COUNT parameter in the Oracle RAC environment?
A customer’s storage administration team wants to receive e-mail notifications when the XtremIO cluster detects an issue of major seventy. The customer has successfully configured and tested the e-mail server in the XtremIO GUI. However, the e-mail server is not receiving the expected notifications when major severity issues appear.
What is the cause of this issue?
You have conducted a meeting with a company’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The CTO wants an XtremIO solution to meet their business needs. The CTO wants you to review the proposed solution with their desktop administrator to identify any additional requirements.
What are two key considerations to discuss with the desktop administrator?
Which SCSI instructions are used to build a bitmap of the changes between the first snapshot and subsequent snapshots when RecoverPoint is used with XtremIO?
A storage administrator wants to re-use some of their XtremIO thin provisioned disks attached to a Microsoft Windows 2012 host. However, the administrator notices that “Quick Format” of the drives is taking a long time to complete. This has an impact on the overall performance.
What should be recommended to minimize the performance impact?
A customer has two XtremIO clusters running 3.x software release. The customer just purchased a new XtremIO array that will be installed with the latest 4.x software release.
What is the minimum number of XtremIO Management Server(s) that will be required to manage all clusters?
When installing a physical XtremIO Management Server (XMS) station, which requirement must be met?
A customer has decided to use VMware Horizon View as their desktop virtualization technology. Their VDI environment will consist of XtremIO storage and ESXi hosts. They are looking for increased speed and low latencies while performing file copy operations.
What should the setting for VAAI XCOPY I/O size be set to in order to achieve this requirement?
A storage administrator is adding both an XtremIO and third-party storage arrays to their existing infrastructure. The administrator is using ViPR SRM to monitor the environment.
Which requirement is needed to implement this solution?
Who developed the framework for testing All-Flash arrays that is used in the XtremIO PoC?
A customer has the following requirements for their VDI deployment:
Which EMC technologies should be recommended?
A customer has a large ESX server environment they are considering deploying to XtremIO for a VDI implementation. To determine a baseline of the environment, you are proceeding with documenting each server’s CPU, NIC, and disk utilization statistics. The customer has provided you with direct CLI access to the servers to conduct this assessment.
Which utility should be used to monitor these performance parameters?
Based on XtremIO best practice, which byte sector size should be used for volumes hosting Oracle database files?
How many management IP addresses are required on a single XtremIO storage controller?