Perform Monitoring of Virtual Environment Using Unisphere for PowerMax. POWERMAX-OPERATE Practice Questions (Page 5)

Questions 21–24

1. 21expert · hard

   A storage administrator needs to analyze the performance of a virtual environment over the past month to identify trends and plan for future capacity. They have been collecting daily performance data. In Unisphere for PowerMax, what is the best approach to analyze this historical data?

   • AUse the built-in performance reports, which allow you to select a date range and view trends.
   • BCreate a custom report that only shows the current day's data.
   • CView the real-time performance dashboard and manually note the values each day.
   • DExport the daily data to CSV files and analyze them in a spreadsheet tool.
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2. 22foundation · easy

   Which Unisphere for PowerMax metric indicates the percentage of a storage volume's allocated capacity that is currently in use by virtual machines?

   • AUtilization
   • BThroughput
   • CIOPS
   • DLatency
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4. 23application · medium

   An administrator receives an alert that a storage pool is 85% full. They need to understand which virtual machines are using the most space in that pool. In Unisphere for PowerMax, what is the most direct way to find this information?

   • ALook at the 'Virtual Machines' view and sort by capacity.
   • BNavigate to the pool's details and view the associated volumes, then cross-reference with the VMs that use those volumes.
   • CCheck the alert details, which should list the top VMs by capacity usage.
   • DRun a performance report on the pool to see which VMs have the highest IOPS.
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5. 24application · medium

   A virtual machine is performing poorly, and you suspect it is due to contention on the storage pool. In Unisphere for PowerMax, which metric would best help you confirm this?

   • AThe VM's throughput, to see if it is saturating the link.
   • BThe VM's average response time compared to the pool's average response time.
   • CThe pool's utilization percentage, to see if it is near capacity.
   • DThe VM's IOPS, to see if it is hitting a limit.
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