How can you reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a SAN?
A. identify and address SAN islands in large corporations that will merge from smaller organizations
B. identify and address pain levels when reducing operating staff
C. identify and address pain levels associated with data movement, data sharing, and data growth
D. identify and address pain levels at upper management
A business continuity strategy for the protection of data can be built on techniques and procedures to _____. (Choose two.)
A. avoid data loss
B. recover data that has been lost
C. shrink the backup and recovery window
D. provide Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)
A customer has implemented a multi-switch core-edge fabric with B- series (Brocade) 2 Gbps fabric switches. How can the SAN administrator back up the SAN configuration data every time a change is made to the SAN? (Choose two.)
A. Switch configuration and zoning configuration are automatically saved to a pre-defined location before a change is applied to either a switch or the fabric.
B. use a Telnet session with FTP to download the switch and zoning information
C. download the switch and zoning configurations with the High Availability Fabric Manager
D. download the switch and zoning configurations with the Fabric Manager
For what are SAN extensions used?
A. business rules that decrease management overhead
B. business continuance in case of site failure
C. business policies that extend across the SAN
D. high-speed business process engineering
A customer has a mission-critical application based on a storage solution with replication on a pair of EVA arrays. Both the source and remote storage arrays must always be synchronized and in the event that a transaction cannot be committed the application should be halted. How must these arrays be set up?
A. Failsafe mode=enabled
B. Synchronized mode=disabled
C. Synchronized mode=enabled
D. Failsafe mode=disabled
What virtualization model is used in the Continuous Access Storage Appliance (CASA)?
A. symmetrical pooling or also called in-band virtualization
B. either symmetrical or asymmetrical selected at the initial configuration
C. asymmetrical pooling or also called out-band virtualization
D. out-band management of symmetrical virtual objects
You are implementing a SAN solution. When should a SAN architecture be created?
A. anytime
B. when the SAN is being designed
C. before any design or implementation
D. when the SAN is implemented
Which statement is true about documenting the SAN architecture and design?
A. Without documentation the SAN is difficult to support.
B. Documentation is not needed if the architect is managing the SAN.
C. Documentation increases SAN performance.
D. Without documentation the source of SNMP messages is unknown.
A SAN administrator needs to change the Domain ID and Core PID parameters on a switch that is part of a production fabric. Which two statements about this update are true? (Choose two.)
A. This process can be performed with the switch online without disruption.
B. The Core PID parameter does not need to be manually changed; it will automatically be selected.
C. The switch must be rebooted to set the Domain ID and Core PID.
D. This process cannot be performed with the switch online and is disruptive.
E. The Core PID parameter must be manually changed as it is set to a default value in the factory.
What does a SAN high availability configuration provide?
A. a non-disruptive upgrade process of theiSCSI protocol definitions
B. a non-disruptive merging of multiple SANs
C. non-disruptive SNMP messages to the system management framework
D. the capability to test new switch firmware in a production environment