In which way does the IBM System Storage DS3500 assist customers in meeting energy efficiency goals?
In which way does the IBM System Storage DS3500 assist customers in meeting energy efficiency goals?
A. Spin-down capability allows for power consumption only when required
B. Intermix of SAS and Near-line SAS allows tailoring of capacity and power consumption
C. The virtual capacity of a thin provisioned volume is typically significantly larger than its real capacity
D. Intermix of Solid State, SAS and SATA drives in a 3.5-inch form-factor allows tailoring of capacity and
power consumption
Which feature of the IBM ProtecTIER solution should the sales specialist emphasize?
A government agency is looking for a data deduplication solution requiring the highest levels of data integrity.
They are comparing solutions from both IBM and Data Domain.
Which feature of the IBM ProtecTIER solution should the sales specialist emphasize?
A. Restore times
B. High availability
C. Hashing algorithms
D. Binary differential process
of the TS3500 that the sales representative should emphasize?
A customer is looking at the STK SL-3000 library to replace an STK L-500 tape library that is coming off of a
7-year lease. They would like to compare the STK SL-3000 to an IBM TS3500 library. Which is an advantage
of the TS3500 that the sales representative should emphasize?
A. Supports IBM LTO drives
B. Provides encryption capabilities
C. Supports more drives and cartridges
D. Supports both LTO-4 and LTO-5 technology
capability today?
A customer has looked at EMC VNX and the promise of storage federation. Which IBM solution offers this
capability today?
A. DS8800 with Easy Tier
B. IBM V7000 Unified with TSM/HSM
C. IBM XIV system Gen3 with InfiniBand
D. IBM SAN Volume Controller with split I/O groups
that can be added to this configuration?
A customer has a single IBM Storwize V7000 Control Enclosure with 4 expansion enclosures attached. The
customer is looking at expanding this configuration. What is the maximum number of expansion enclosures
that can be added to this configuration?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
NFS storage on an EMC Celerra/VNX environment
The IBM Real-time Compression Appliance supports:
A. NDMP data on an IBM N3240
B. VMwareiSCSI storage on a DS5300
C. Read data in SSD cache in XIV system Gen3
D. NFS storage on an EMC Celerra/VNX environment
Which of the following is the lowest cost solution?
A manufacturing customer has an existing SAN for their AIX servers and they want to add their Windows
servers with file level access to their existing storage system.
Which of the following is the lowest cost solution?
A. N6240
B. DS3500
C. DCS3700
D. XIV system
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What feature of the SAN Volume Controller would be most important to this customer?
A customer wishes to extend the useful life of their current storage capacity, which consists of EMC
CLARiiON CX-240, IBM DS3500, and HP MSA storage.
What feature of the SAN Volume Controller would be most important to this customer?
A. SVC provides scalability on a per-node basis
B. SVC provides additional cache write capabilities
C. SVC provides distribution of data across metro distances
D. SVC provides thin provisioning across all managed volumes
Which IBM product best satisfies the customer requirements?
A customer expresses dissatisfaction with the utilization numbers of their current heterogeneous storage
resources, and with the management complexity.
Which IBM product best satisfies the customer requirements?
A. Data deduplication with ProtecTIER
B. Virtualization with SAN Volume Controller
C. Data compression with IBM Real-time Compression Appliance
D. Performance monitoring with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
from which other vendor?
The management functions included with the IBM DS5000 Storage Manager are very similar to an offering
from which other vendor?
A. HP
B. Nexsan
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C. Oracle
D. Dell EqualLogic