During a Technical Delivery and Assessment (TDA) for a DS8870, the solution architect was directed to use Disk Magic to size the solution. What will Disk Magic provide in this situation? A. Modeling of a specific storage configuration B. Determine…
A customer is considering the Cisco MDS 9148 and the IBM SAN48B-5 SAN switches. What are two key advantages for the IBM SAN48B-5 switch? (Choose two.) A. 10Gbps port support B. 1U of rack space C. 1Gbps port support D.…
A customer has asked an IBM technical specialist about growth in I/O on its existing system. The specialist generated the following table: Which tool was used to produce this table? A. ProtecTIER Planner B. Batch Magic C. Disk Magic D.…
Which feature of the XIV system is a technical advantage over competitive storage arrays? A. SSD adaptive read caching B. Deduplication C. Encryption at any time D. Software bundled with IBM Spectrum Control
A customer has asked about the RAID architecture of IBM Spectrum Scale. Which two advantages of declustered RAID should you highlight to the customer? (Choose two.) A. Faster rebuild of data on failed drives B. Uses a subset of drives…
A customer wants a new tape library. The customer currently uses LTO-4 tapes but has some older archive tapes on LTO-3. What is the highest level tape drive the customer can install and still read the older archive tapes and…
A customer has a single frame TS3500 with a L23 frame. There are five TS1150 drives and 100 tapes in this frame. The customer wants to add five LTO-6 drives to this TS3500. What is the most cost effective solution…
A customer is having difficulty with managing the heterogeneous storage infrastructure and tracking the performance of SAN-attached devices. Which IBM product will resolve the customer’s immediate concern? A. IBM Spectrum Virtualize B. IBM Spectrum Control C. IBM Director D. Fabric…
A customer is considering the purchase of an XIV system and wants the standard warranty. What is the standard hardware warranty for this purchase? A. One year warranty with 9×5 same business day. B. Five year warranty with 24×7 response…
What is the next step for a failed installation of an IBM TS4500 where there have been I/O errors that prevent placing the library into production even after replacement of multiple parts and verification of configuration definitions? A. Facilitate a…