1.
A customer has been using Avamar to leverage deduplication for VMware. They have been performing guest-level backups and now want to perform. vmdlk backups for disaster recovery. What is a requirement to perform VCB backups?
2.
A customer has an existing environment that uses a Data Domain appliance as a disk backup target. The customer now wants to implement a disaster recovery site using an existing T1 Internet connection.
Consider the following:
- 100 GB of data has been backed up on the primary Data Domain appliance
- Retention policy is set for 6 months
What is a best practice implementation for this environment?
3.
The EMC account team has been asked to design a NetWorker backup solution for a Microsoft SharePoint server. The customer's environment consists of a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 distributed farm deployment on a CLARiiON disk array with EMC VSS Provider and an EMC Disk Library. The customer wants to leverage a Microsoft VSS framework to provide disaster recovery of the SharePoint Saver 2007 distributed farm environment.
What is an important design consideration?
4.
In a Microsoft Windows environment, how fast does a split have to occur for VSS to work?
5.
A customer wants to know why their backup performance to the Avamar multinode f\grid has decreased. Initially they were seeing an ingestion rate of around 5 to 7 GB/hr/node. Recently they estimated that it has slowed to around 3 to 5 GB/hr/ node. What is a probable cause for the decrease in the average ingestion rate?
6.
An EMC NetWorker customer has three backup servers with four storage nodes reporting to each of the backup servers. All servers run Microsoft Windows. A dual-engine EMC Disk Library with Active Engine Failover is being proposed for this environment with embedded storage nodes for to physical tape. What is a consideration for this solution?
7.
A customer is planning a new database rollout using Oracle and wants to perform online backups. Initial tests with NetWorker have shown that the backups cannot be completed within the backup window of 6 hours. You have analyzed your backup environment and there are adequate resources to meet this stringent backup window. What is one of the first things to check in NetWorker or RMAN to increase performance without adding cost and complexity?
8.
A customer with an existing VMware infrastructure is interested in Avamar as a potential backup solution. The customer needs to back up 10 virtual machines with a total of 2.9 TB of data. The daily change rate is 6 GB per day. Which solution would you recommend?
9.
A customer has requested assistance with several backup and recovery challenges. You use the EMC backup scripts to perform the data collection. Which type of data is collected using the backup quick scripts?
10.
A customer has Oracle 9i running on a Microsoft Windows server. They want to deploy hot backups because the database cannot be shut down. What is a design consideration for backups when using the Avamar plug-in for Oracle?