E20-326 Exam Details

  • Exam Code
    :E20-326
  • Exam Name
    :Symmetrix Solutions Design Exam for Technology Architects Exam
  • Certification
    :EMC Certifications
  • Vendor
    :EMC
  • Total Questions
    :235 Q&As
  • Last Updated
    :Jul 07, 2026

EMC E20-326 Online Questions & Answers

  • Question 221:

    A customer needs to configure SRDF/S between two sites 10 km apart. The customer connected the R1 ports to fabric-A at site 1 and the R2 ports to fabric-B at site 2. The customer does not want to merge the two fabrics between sites. What is the recommended solution?

    A. Implement FC routing or Virtual SAN to isolate the fabric
    B. Implement FCIP connection to isolate the fabric
    C. Merge two fabrics, and zone R1 and R2 ports.
    D. Connect the RDF ports using DWDM or SONET.

  • Question 222:

    An SRDF/S design analysis was performed with BCSD. The Volume Exception tab in BCSD has identified several volumes. What is a reason for this issue?

    A. Acceptable volume write limits have been exceeded
    B. Inadequate bandwidth
    C. Acceptable write pending limits have been exceeded
    D. Unknown limits have been exceeded, further investigation is required

  • Question 223:

    A major telecommunications operator is planning to consolidate multiple mid-tier storage arrays to a single Symmetrix VMAX solution. Their existing environment includes IBM AIX servers, HP-UX Servers and Windows 2003 Servers. When documenting the existing Server environment, which command can be used on the HP-UX Servers, to list the software modules installed?

    A. swlist
    B. lslpp
    C. pkginfo
    D. pkgchk

  • Question 224:

    A customer is using SRDF/S with one Symmetrix VMAX in each data center. An application is doing 10,000 4 KB IOPS with 40% writes and is using multiple volumes. Assume an RA port can handle a maximum of 4,000 4 KB IOPS. Based on best practices, how many RAs are needed for this application?

    A. 1
    B. 2
    C. 4
    D. 8

  • Question 225:

    A customer is implementing a Microsoft Exchange environment on a Symmetrix VMAX. The environment will be deployed on 600 GB FC 15K drives using RAID 1 data protection. The application generates 1350 I/ O per second and has a 2:1 read/write ratio.

    What is the minimum number of drives recommended to support the application?

    A. 8
    B. 12
    C. 16
    D. 30

  • Question 226:

    You are designing an SRDF/S over Fibre Channel solution. Data centers are 50 km apart and 4 Gb/s FC links are in place. What is the minimum number of buffer-to-buffer credits required to maximize the utilization of the links?

    A. 25
    B. 50
    C. 100
    D. 300

  • Question 227:

    Refer to the exhibit.

    A company plans to deploy a two-engine Symmetrix VMAX array in their VMware vSphere environment. The ESXi hosts will be connected to the VMAX array over a FC SAN. What is the recommended best practice when zoning an ESXi host with two HBAs to the VMAX?

    A. HBA 1 to Port E0 on Even (8) Director HBA 1 to Port E0 on Even (10) Director HBA 2 to Port E0 on Odd (7) Director HBA 2 to Port E0 on Odd (9) Director
    B. HBA 1 to Port E0 on Odd (7) Director HBA 1 to Port E0 on Even (8) Director HBA 2 to Port G0 on Odd (7) Director HBA 2 to Port G0 on Even (8) Director
    C. HBA 1 to Port E0 on Odd (7) Director HBA 1 to Port E1 on Odd (7) Director HBA 2 to Port G0 on Even (10) Director HBA 2 to Port G1 on Even (10) Director
    D. HBA 1 to Port E0 on Odd (7) Director HBA 1 to Port E0 on Even (8) Director HBA 2 to Port E0 on Odd (9) Director HBA 2 to Port E0 on Even (10) Director

  • Question 228:

    You are designing an SRDF/A DSE solution. The production application is expected to generate approximately 1500 4 KB write operations every second. The DSE pool will have RAID 5 (3+1) devices residing on 600 GB 15K RPM FC disks. What is the estimated number of disks required for DSE?

    A. 60
    B. 100
    C. 160
    D. 200

  • Question 229:

    How is Open Replicator licensed?

    A. Licenses are per-system and are priced by the raw capacity of the array. This is required for the control array only.
    B. Licenses are per host and are priced based on an agent license that is entered via command line.
    C. Licenses are per-system and are priced by the raw capacity of the array. This is required for both the remote and control arrays.
    D. Licenses are per host and are priced based on the amount on the total amount of storage capacity that is mapped to an FA port.

  • Question 230:

    What is the functional description for Tier Advisor?

    A. An interactive performance modeling tool.
    B. A peak performance analysis tool.
    C. A tool that helps calculate DA utilization.
    D. A tool that recommends the right number of VMAX engines.

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