Which product should the technical specialist recommend?

A customer is refreshing a 300 TB multi-vendor storage environment with an IBM Storwize V7000 and needs all the storage advanced functionality features such as remote mirroring, thin provisioning and Easy Tier. The customer also requires capability for storage provisioning. VMware vCenter APIs, end performance monitoring.

Which product should the technical specialist recommend?
A . IBM Spectrum Control Advanced Edition
B . IBM Spectrum Protect Suite
C . IBM Storwize V7000 full bundle
D . IBM Virtual Storage Center

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Answer: C

Explanation:

IBM Storwize V7000 provides the following benefits:

Built-in solid-state drive optimization

_ Thin provisioning and nondisruptive migration of data

_ Real-time compression for efficiently reducing disk capacity by up to 80%

_ IBM System Storage Easy Tier® for automatically migrating data between storage tiers

_ Easy to use graphical user interface

_ Supports block workloads for simplicity and greater efficiency

_ Resilience with IBM FlashCopy technology

_ Metro Mirror and Global Mirror for replicating data synchronously or asynchronously

between systems for backup efficiency

_ Configurations up to 360 TB physical storage

Note: The IBM Storage Management Console for VMware vCenter is a software plug-in that integrates

into the VMware vCenter server platform. It enables VMware administrators to independently and

centrally manage their storage resources on IBM storage systems. These resources include SVC,

Storwize V7000, Storwize V3700, among other IBM storage systems.

References: IBM SAN Solution Design Best Practices for VMware vSphere ESXi, page 4

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248158.pdf