A customer has acquired a variety of multi-vendor storage systems. The customer would like to implement a comprehensive solution that can significantly improve monitoring, automation and analytics capabilities for this environment. Which IBM solution provides these capabilities? A. IBM Spectrum…
A customer has an IBM SAN Volume Controller cluster with two CF8 nodes that contain one four-port Fibre Channel card. The customer desires to replace these two nodes with two new SV1 nodes running compression. The customer requires that this…
Which resource informs a storage specialist if a Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) has to be done? A. Systems Assurance Product Review Guide B. IBM Pre-sale TDA Checklist C. Trigger Criteria and Designated Product List D. Digital Techline Center
A customer needs to control the rapid growth of its database environment while providing the highest performance and lowest latency. Which solution satisfies the customer’s requirements while providing the best total cost of ownership? A. IBM Spectrum Scale B. IBM…
A customer has asked about the difference between standard RAID and declustered RAID architecture of IBM Spectrum Scale. Which advantage of declustered RAID should the technical specialist highlight to the customer? A. Dedicated spare drives B. Uses a subset of…
An existing IBM San Volume Controller DH8 cluster consists of two I/O groups with DH8 nodes running IBM Spectrum Virtualize 7.6. Performance analysis shows the cluster requires significant additional memory for the I/O workload. What is the first step the…
A customer has deployed multiple IBM FlashSystem A9000R systems in its environment and has asked for a graphical report to periodically show capacity growth, utilization, and trends for the systems, pools, and domains. Which tool generates this report? A. IBM…
Which IBM storage solution provides the least latency? A. IBM FlashSystem V9000 B. IBM FlashSystem 900 C. IBM DS8880 with HPFE D. IBM V7000 with SSD
When upgrading an existing IBM TS4500 Tape Library, which solution provides high availability (HA) functionality? A. MES upgrade to add a second accessor to one of the existing frames B. An HA frame and a drive frame plus a second…
A scientific customer is implementing a large archive solution and plans to use IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Archive to store the data. The customer wants to take advantage of the IBM solution for media verification. What does the…