This certification validates practical skills in system administration and infrastructure, including deployment, administration, troubleshooting, and resilience. It is intended for professionals operating dependable enterprise technology environments.
An engineer has installed a Storage Array with a Tier 1 consisting of SSDs.
What should the engineer do to optimize performance for I/O workloads utilizing this Tier?
An engineer has mapped a volume to an existing Windows 2012 server. The engineer has configured zoning and confirmed that all paths are correctly configured.
The operating system can only see one path within the MPIO software.
Which step should the engineer take so that all paths are presented to the server?
An engineer needs to configure a VMware host. According to best practice, the engineer needs to enable a feature by changing the variables QFullSampleSize and QFullThreshold. The engineer sets those two parameters to the value of 0 in VMware ESXi 5.1 Patch 1 and later versions.
Which feature is enabled?
An engineer needs to configure a server. The server is connected to a Storage Center via iSCSI using or more hardware iSCSI host bus adapters. If connectivity is lost due to controller failover, the server needs to reconnect to the Storage Center iSCSI target ports.
Which HBA feature must be enabled to meet the requirement?
A customer has mapped a volume to a ESX server using two 8 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) paths. The customer needs the traffic to split equally across the two FC paths.
Which ESX Multi-pathing policy should be used?