Which solution should the technical specialist recommend to the customer?

A customer has a requirement for 250,000 IOPS and 200TB of capacity. The customer requires an enterprise-level maintenance agreement for the storage solution. Which solution should the technical specialist recommend to the customer?A . XIV with 3TB drives and SSD cacheB . DS8870 with ranks of 1.2TB drives and HPFEC...

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What is the default configuration of a RAID protection level in an IBM DS8884 HPFE that affects the usable capacity?

What is the default configuration of a RAID protection level in an IBM DS8884 HPFE that affects the usable capacity?A . RAID-6B . RAID-1C . RAID-10D . RAID-5View AnswerAnswer: D

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Which storage solution should the technical specialist recommend?

A customer wants to replace an existing HDS system connected to an IBM z/OS mainframe with a storage solution to reduce cooling requirements and potential of mechanical failure. Which storage solution should the technical specialist recommend?A . IBM FlashSystem 900B . IBM FlashSystem V9000C . IBM DS8886 HPFED . IBM...

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Which step is needed first to ensure success of this upgrade?

A customer has an IBM SAN Volume Controller cluster with two CF8 nodes that contain one four-port Fiber Channel card. The customer desires to replace these two nodes with new SV1 nodes running compression. The customer requires that this upgrade occurs without downtime. Which step is needed first to ensure...

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Which tool should you use to help the customer understand that the IBM solution will be more cost-effective than the competitors?

A customer is considering a storage consolidation project. Which tool should you use to help the customer understand that the IBM solution will be more cost-effective than the competitors?A . IBM CompeteCenterB . IBM ATS Server Consolidation MonitorC . IBM System Storage Interoperation CenterD . IBM Systems Consolidation Evaluation ToolView...

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Which simple, non-intrusive process should a technical specialist recommend to obtain an overview of the storage environment?

Which simple, non-intrusive process should a technical specialist recommend to obtain an overview of the storage environment?A . Disk Magic studyB . IBM Spectrum Control BaseC . Visual Storage Intelligence studyD . IBM Spectrum Control AdvancedView AnswerAnswer: B Explanation: https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/spectrum-control/details#product-header-top

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Which IBM tool can be utilized to determine if Real-time Compression can help in an IBM SAN Volume Controller or Storwize V7000 environment to reduce storage acquisition costs?

Which IBM tool can be utilized to determine if Real-time Compression can help in an IBM SAN Volume Controller or Storwize V7000 environment to reduce storage acquisition costs?A . STATB . Disk MagicC . Capacity MagicD . ComprestimatorView AnswerAnswer: D

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Which addition to the existing system should the technical specialist propose?

A customer has an existing mainframe environment with an IBM DS8884 attached. This frame is only partially populated. The customer is attaching existing IBM POWER servers that require a three-tier storage solution including SSDs. Electrical power is not readily available. Price is also a key criteria. Which addition to the...

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Which IBM flash solution should the specialist recommend to control capacity utilization?

A customer looking for an all-flash solution is evaluating IBM products The primary concern for the customer is the rapid growth of its database environment. Which IBM flash solution should the specialist recommend to control capacity utilization?A . IBM XIV Gen3 with SSDB . IBM DS8886 PFEC . IBM FlashSystem...

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What is the first step the technical specialist should recommend?

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 the cluster requires significant additional memory for the I/O workload. What is the first step the technical specialist should recommend?A . Expand the cluster to 4 I/O...

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