SNIA Storage Networking Management and Administration Set 1

You have a new storage array with the following drive types:
1. SAS (6 Gbps)
2. SSD
3. SATA (6 Gbps)
4. FC(4Gbps)
You need to decide which drive type to use based on speed, cost, and drive availability for your Tier 1 storage. Which type of drive would you choose?

You are designing a security solution for a storage array which stores customer credit card information. Data on the storage array must be encrypted and if necessary, you want to be able to revoke access to data on demand. In addition to encryption, which solution would allow you to do this in a secure and automated fashion?

You want to prevent unauthorized switches from connecting to your company's fabrics. What should you do?

You have received an emergency call from the night shift after they attempted to merge three small SANs in the engineering department. Once completed, all devices in SANs A and B communicate with one another but SAN C could not communicate with either of the other SANs because the fabric has become segmented. Which statement is correct?

What should be considered when implementing remote replication of storage?

 

A company has a storage subsystem that supports a variety of replication options. They have purchased an identical array and placed it at a secondary site 4,200 km away and want to keep the two arrays as closely synchronized as possible. Which solution should be chosen?

Five out of 4S servers using one particular enterprise storage system are experiencing performance degradation during normal working hours. All 48 servers have similar workload characteristics. There are multiple disk groups that make up your enterprise storage. What should be monitored to determine the root cause?

A new server needs to start from LUN 1 instead of LUN 0. Which HBA setting must be configured?

A line of business (LOB) executive informs you that a new application requires 99.999% (five 9s) of up-time from both planned and unplanned outages before a service level objective (SLO) will be breached. What is the amount of permissible downtown per week?

Only one of many servers has poor performance within an enterprise SAN. The server administrator has found high disk timeout values without a decrease in throughput. The server has multiple paths to the storage system but only one path is active at this time. What should the storage administrator monitor to assist with troubleshooting?