Cisco Designing Cisco Storage Network Solutions

During the initial set up, what is necessary to use the extended buffer credits? Select the best response.

During configuration, how are challenges with NPIV deployment addressed? Select the best response.

Which component of the Cisco MDS 9509 director switch can fail and the switch will continue to run without downtime? Select the best response.

What is the prerequisite for accessibility, when a customer has a Cisco MDS 92222i switch deployed in two different locations with the mgmt0 port located in the management VLAN? Select the best response.

A customer is adopting the Cisco MDS switches in their environment with a goal that they will eventually replace the existing Brocade switches. While the two switch types will coexist, they have to use standards-based interoperability mode because of the storage-vendor support requirements. Which settings will have to be used within certain values for this interoperability mode to function? Select the best response.

What are two recommended ways for protecting the management access to a Cisco MDS switch? (Choose two.)

A customer wants to connect a McData switch to your Cisco MDS SAN. Which interop mode would you choose to maintain the maximum feature set on both sides of the SAN? Select the best response.

A customer recently deployed four Cisco MDS 9222i Multilayer Fabric Switches, two at each location. The locations are approximately 150 km apart. The customer will use the FCIP connectivity for backup to the remote site. The backup server generally requires approximately 6 Gb/s of throughput to keep tapes streaming and has two 8-Gb/s Fibre Channel host bus adapters. How should the inter-site connectivity be accomplished? Select the best response.

When connecting two Fibre Channel networks across an IP network, what tool would aid in setting up the proper WAN parameters? Select the best response.

A customer is about to deploy a primary and secondary data center using the service provider's network to connect the data center's IP and Fibre Channel networks to connect the SAN island with FCIP tunnels. What should the service provider's equipment support to maximize the FCIP throughput with minimum overhead? Select the best response.