You have a single fabric with four servers connecting to an edge switch in a core edge configuration with single 2Gb/s ISLs to the core. Each server has an average throughput requirement of 40MB/s. Under which circumstance would you need to add a second ISL?
Two servers have been connected to a SAN with redundant fabrics and the zone configuration needs to be changed. How can you safely change the zone configuration?
Your customer has upgraded to faster tape technology and the backup is now taking longer. No other changes have been made. What is a possible cause of the performance degradation?
After a company experienced a localized disaster, the Business Continuance Plan was reviewed. The plan
was revised to include a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of four (4) hours and a Recovery Point Object
(RPO) of one hour. What two (2) processes must be implemented to support this requirement? (Choose
two.)
University IT provides shared Fibre Channel storage services. All storage subsystems and fibre channel switches are located in the secure campus datacenter. Each college and department provides their own systems and staff. Central IT provides fabric, storage and backup administration. Which security mechanism is most important in this Fibre Channel infrastructure?
A server administrator notices when a specific server is re-booted its SAN storage is sometimes visible and sometimes it is not. After examining the SAN switch logs, no FLOGI message has been received on that port. Which HBA parameter is a most likely cause?
You are the system administrator of a medium-sized manufacturing company. The chief executive officer (CEO) is concerned about business continuity in case of a disaster. He constituted a project team to develop a business continuity and disaster recovery solution. The team is discussing online backup strategies. What affects time-to-create and incremental update of a copy-on-write snapshot?