A company’s legacy storage environment includes IBM DCS3700, IBM XIV, and EMC VNX 5500. The company would like to seamlessly scale capacity and manage existing storage. Cost is a consideration.
Which IBM solution should the technical specialist recommend?
A customer wants to allow application administrators to provision storage from an IBM Storwize V7000 system but does not want to give them direct access to the Storwize system.
Which product should the technical specialist discuss with the customer?
An IBM SVC customer currently uses older nodes and wants to upgrade to take advantage of compression software.
Which feature needs to be ordered with the new SV1 nodes to take advantage of compression?
A customer is considering both an IBM VersaStack converged and a competitor’s hyper-converged systems for a new system running mixed workloads including virtual machines and database servers.
What should the technical specialist highlight to the customer?
Which IBM website provides the most current support matrix information for the IBM Storwize product line?
A customer wants to know the advantage of DRAID over traditional RAID
What should the technical specialist explain?
A customer wants to move an MDisk between storage pools.
Which action accomplishes this task?
A customer needs to significantly increase the performance of an existing IBM Storwize V7000 Gen1 based on 15k RPM SAS disks with minimal investment.
What is the most effective way to achieve this?
A customer needs to implement CHAP on an IBM Storwize V7000.
What does CHAP provide?
A company uses FlashCopy on IBM Storwize V7000 to maintain an accurate copy of IBM DB2 database volumes.
How can the customer maintain the order of dependent writes?
Which IBM Storwize product has the capability to provide up to 12 SAS interface ports for host connectivity with optional adapter cards?
An IBM Storwize customer must update the encryption key on a regular basis.
What is required to change the local master encryption key?
Which IBM storage product allows for scalability up to a maximum of two control enclosures with a clustered system?
What is the architectural difference between virtual machines and containers?
Which resource informs a storage specialist if a TDA is mandatory or optional?