TSM Interview Questions

EMC Storage Area Netwroks (SAN) Basic Interview Questions on Clariion, DMX and VMAX

• What is Power path ?

• Power pathCLI to manage disks  ?

• List Power path policy ?

• What is Vault drive ?

• What is the PSM Lun ?

• Basics of Storage ?

• Define RAID ?

• Which one you feel is good choice ?

• StorageArray used in DAS ?

• Explain iSCSI login, fabric login ?

• Advantage of migration from DAS to SAN ?

• What is Meta Lun ?

• Explain Clariion architecture

• Explain DMX architecture

• Explain Enginuity operation layers

• What is hard and soft zoning?

• Explain WWN

• What is zoning and how to create?

• What is VSAN and how to create?

• Hardware Models of clarion

• What is FCID?

• Explain Navishere/Symmtric Management console /ECC 22.Initialization of clarion array

• Explain rule 17 in DMX

• Why and how symmask, symld and symdg are used in DMX? 25. Symdev

• Explain about symcfg

• What is SYMAPI?

• Configuration change in DMX

• What is VCMDB?

• Can windows, Linux, Solaris share the same FA in DMX? 31.What is Snap view?

• What is Mirror view?

• What is SAN Copy?

• Explain Time finder and SRDF

• Difference in iSCSI and NAS

• What is IQN?

• Explain SAN, NAS and CAS using devices used in these model 38.Difference in iFCP and FCIP

• What is fabric?

• What is RAID? Explain RAID3, RAID5 and RAID1/0

• What is Hot Spare Disk?

• What are the bay in DMX-3

• Version and Model

• Brief the Symmetrix CLI command

• Create Storage group and add device into storage group in DMX. 46.Create Time Finder Clone using CLI

• Composite Device group

• How to create SRDF

• What is iSCSI ?

• What is Disk Controller?

• How does data got saved in case of striping and incase of concatenation? 52.What is the minimum no. of disks required for RAID 5 and RAID 6? 

• Difference between time finder and clone?

• What is SRDF R1 & R2?

• What is the version of Symmetrix DMX4?

• In 4-24 what do 24 mean?

• What is fabric?

• Importance of RAID6?

• How many disk failures RAID 5 supports? 60.Importance of masking?

• Different RAID levels?

• What is quorum disk and it is importance?

• How to manually restore failed paths in Clariion?

• Flash drives in DMX4?

• What is LCC? Link Control Card

• Storage provisioning in DMX?

• Steps for zoning using CLI?

• Describe SMCLI commands you have used

• LUN, Base LUN and Metalun?

• Difference between HP EVA 5000 and 8000?

• What is CMI? Clariion Message Interface

• What are the I/O operations in Clariion?

• Use of SPs?

• What is VMCDB?

• What is Hyper?

• What is a device in DMX?

• What is SAN Kit?

• Channel directors and disk directors?

• What is global memory?

• Difference between Emulex and Qlogic?

• What is storage array in Clariion?

• What FCID?

• What is F-LOGI and P-LOGI? How authentication happens?

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