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XtremIO Solutions and Design Specialist Exam for Technology Architects (E20-526) - EMC Exam Questions

Last updated on June 20, 2026

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A customer is considering XtremIO storage for their current Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment. The customer wants information on the benefits of an XtremIO solution.

What are the benefits of an XtremIO solution for this environment?
Options
A Latency is less than 1 ms for small I/O sizes, deduplication and compression, and scales linearly
B Latency is less than 1 ms for all large I/O sizes, deduplication with compression, and scales linearly
C Latency is less than 1 ms for large I/O sizes, deduplication and compression, and no reduction in power and cooling costs
D Latency is less than 1 ms for small I/O sizes, scales linearly, and slightly higher cost/IOP/GB than hybrid arrays
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You need to design an Oracle solution for a customer. Which XtremIO best practices should be used in Oracle environments?
Options
A Align data on 4 kB boundaries. Use Lazy Zeroed Thick formatting on ESXi
B Use a 4 kB LUN sector size for databases. Use Lazy Zeroed Thick formatting for ESXi
C Use a 512 byte LUN sector size for databases. Use Eager Zeroed Thick formatting for ESXi
D Align data on 4 kB boundaries. Use Thin formatting on ESXi
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A customer wants to purchase an XtremIO array. After the array is installed, the customer wants to initially disable encryption. What is the result of enabling encryption on an array that is already being used?
Options
A Data will be erased and the XtremIO cluster services will be temporarily shutdown.
B Data will remain in place and there will be no interruption to the XtremIO cluster services.
C Data will remain in place but the XtremIO cluster services will need to be temporarily shutdown.
D Data will be erased but there will be no interruption to the XtremIO cluster services.
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A customer has a group of applications that need storage which can provide low response times. The
total I/O requirements are 75,000 IOPs with a 4 kB block size. They will have 500 LUNs and need to
keep 30 daily snapshots of each LUN.

What is the smallest XtremIO configuration that will meet their needs?
Options
A 2 clusters with 2 X-Bricks each
B 1 cluster with 2 X-Bricks
C 1 cluster with 4 X-Bricks
D 2 clusters with 1 X-Brick each
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A customer has a large ESX server environment they are considering deploying to XtremIO for a VDI implementation. To determine a baseline of the environment, you are proceeding with documenting each server’s CPU, NIC, and disk utilization statistics. The customer has provided you with direct CLI access to the servers to conduct this assessment.

Which utility should be used to monitor these performance parameters?
Options
A iostat
B resxtop
C esxtop
D top
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