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A customer wants to know why their backup performance to an EMC Avamar multi-node server has decreased. Initially they were seeing an ingest rate of approximately 5 to 7 GB/hr/node. Recently they estimated that the ingest rate has slowed to around 3 to 5 GB/hr/node. What is a probable cause for the decrease in the average ingest rate?
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A backup administrator has been performing image level backups of their Hyper-V virtual machines to their Avamar server. They need to recover a single file to one of their Linux virtual machines. What must they do to recover this file?
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You are having a conversation with an EMC Avamar customer regarding the final design. They indicate that they have certain data that needs to be carefully secured during transit. This data is typically transferred at different times and in different groups. Which type of encryption would address the customer's concern?
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A backup administrator has added a large database server with a low change rate to their Avamar server as a new backup client. The database server is located remotely and the network connection is not consistent. The server backup continuously runs into overtime and fails due to network issues. As a result, the initial backup has not completed. The backup administrator asks you for advice on how to ensure successful backups. What should you tell the backup administrator?
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A customer is performing backups of their desktop/laptop clients to an Avamar server. They plan to add a secure Oracle database server as a new backup client. They are concerned about the security of the database data since no data is being encrypted when it is stored on the Avamar. What is a consideration of enabling encryption at rest?
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A customer has a multi-node EMC Avamar server with eight active storage nodes. They are currently at 85% GSAN capacity and receiving capacity warning messages. The customer would like to purchase four additional nodes for the system. What is a best practice for adding capacity?
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An EMC NetWorker customer is using the NetWorker Workgroup Edition. They want to purchase an Autochanger license. What is the maximum number of slots allowed with this edition?
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You are asked to design an EMC NetWorker backup solution for a customer's data center with multiple database applications and a large amount of clients and data. The NetWorker backup server needs to be configured and set up properly for the customer environment. What is a design consideration for the NetWorker backup server?
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You are asked to design an EMC NetWorker backup solution for a customer's data center with multiple database applications and a large amount of clients and data. The NetWorker backup server needs to be sized and configured properly for the customer environment. What is a design consideration for the NetWorker backup server?
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A customer is deploying an Oracle database and wants to perform online backups of the Oracle database with EMC NetWorker. Due to the nature of their database application, no Oracle datafiles are striped across disk storage. What is a design consideration when configuring RMAN backup?