Interview Question November

Storage Area Network questions.

1. FLOGI process step by step?
2. What are Fabric Id and Port Id?
3. What is principle switch?
4. What is Inter switch link?
5. What is Inter Chassis Link?
6. What is Switch Segmentation?
7. What is a Gateway switch? How to implement it?
8. Zoning Step by Step?
9. Global configuration database?
10. How can you configure a zoning from a Zoning database and activate it later with offline database?
11. NPIV implementation?

DMX and VMAX interview questions.

1. What is rule 17?
2. How to configure rule 17?
3. What are the steps to configure rule 17?
4. Why to use rule 17? Power management concept?
5. Storage provisioning concept?
6. Scenario questions: you have 1 servers in with 4 paths. You want to remove 2 paths. How can you remove device from 2 paths without Write disabling the device?
7. Storage provisioning concept in VMAX?
8. Storage provisioning concept in DMX, how to provide an address to device in front end ports?
9. Scenario questions: There are 4 initiator and are in one group. You want to make a different storage group and assign to same initiator group. How is it possible?
10. How will you do the port assignment using rule 17?
11. DMX architecture?
12. VMAX architecture?
13. What is Meta? How much large will be the Meta size in VMAX?
14. How much cache blades are present in DMX?
15. EMC vault mechanism?
16. Thin pool creation process?
17. What is Remote replication process?
18. How will you check the remote replication status?
19. What is the process for time finder clone? Did you ever do time finder clone?
20. What monitoring tools used tell about ECC?
21. How will you monitor EMC storage with ECC?
22. Final question: Do you know about filer, VNX, celera? What is process to allocate storage In that?