CE Casinos, Inc. has an application that gathers statistics from slot machines and saves the data
to a CLARiiON LUN. Because I/O sizes are small, typically 8 KB or smaller, and the access
pattern is very random, RAID-1/0 was chosen for the LUN, which is 512 GB in size. I/Os are
consistent at 100 writes/s for 24 hours a day. This LUN must be replicated to a CX400 at a test
site 10 km away for read-only data analysis. Data collection occurs between 8 am and 8 pm, and
the analysis runs from midnight until 4 am. The link between sites is a dedicated 90 Mbps
connection. What is the best solution for the customer's needs?
Answer(s)
- Take a SnapView Snapshot of the Production LUN at 8 pm each night, and use SAN Copy toperform a full copy to the remote site. Stop the Session once analysis is complete.
- Clone the Production LUN. Fracture the Clone at 8 pm each night, and use SAN Copy toperform a full copy to the remote site. Resynchronize the Clone once analysis is complete.
- Mirror the Production LUN. Fracture the Mirror at 8 pm each night, and use a SnapViewSnapshot of the secondary image for analysis. Resynchronize the Mirror once analysis starts.
- Clone the Production LUN. Fracture the Clone at 8 pm each night, and use Incremental SANCopy to perform a copy to the remote site. Resynchronize the Clone once analysis iscomplete.
- Use Incremental SAN Copy to a remote LUN with the Production LUN as the source, and runthe update at 8 pm each night. Use a Snapshot of the remote LUN for the analysis. Stop theSnapView Session once the analysis completes.
Correct Answer
Mirror the Production LUN. Fracture the Mirror at 8 pm each night, and use a SnapViewSnapshot of the secondary image for analysis. Resynchronize the Mirror once analysis starts.