PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Solutions Design (Introduction to BCSD + Data Collection for BCSD)

Question 1

What is BCSD?

Answer 1

Business Continuity Solutions Designer

enables users to design new and existing environments for local and remote replication

Question 2

What are the design parameters for a BCSD solution?

Answer 2

bandwidth requirements

network latency impact on synchronous response time

remote adapter (RA) utilization

potential hot volumes/LUNs

Question 3

What are the UNIX files for BCSD?

Answer 3

SAR
HP-UX
IOSTAT
SUN SOLARIS

Question 4

What are the VMWare Desktop files for BCSD?

Answer 4

ESXi servers using esxtop command

Question 5

What are the Windows files for BCSD?

Answer 5

Perfmon (CSV)

Question 6

What are the IBMi files for BCSD?

Answer 6

Work with Disk Status (WRKDSKSTS)

Question 7

What are the IBM z/OS files for BCSD?

Answer 7

SMF/CMF

system management facility
CICs monitoring facility

Question 8

What are the legacy Dell files for BCSD?

Answer 8

Symmetrix BTP
VMAX DCF
CLARiiON NAR

Question 9

What is SAR?

Answer 9

common performance measurement tool used across any UNIX platform

System Activity Reporting

Question 10

What is required for HP-UX systems?

Answer 10

SAR

Question 11

What is IOSTAT?

Answer 11

another major UNIX disk performance measurement command

designed to run interactively