A customer tells a technical specialist that EMO stated XIV has a double drive failure problem
because XIV has a 180 drive RAID group.
What is the best response to this competitive statement?

A technical specialist is holding a general discussion with a customer who has a large volume of
block and file data. The customer tells the specialist that their company’s storage maintenance is
coming up for renewal and that they are facing pressure from within the company to adopt a Cloud
Strategy. The customer’s main technical concern is to avoid downtime with migration.

Which solution provides native support for this strategy?

A technical specialist is enhancing an existing EMC storage environment with the IBM SAN
Volume Controller. One of the primary customer requirements is to reclaim space in the existing
environment by using real-time compression.
Which tool should the technical specialist use?

A System z customer running z/OS Vi .11 is using a single D58801J storage system with Easy
Tier enabled. Storage performance for a business critical application needs to improve to handle
end-of-month and end-of-quarter processing. The customer requires minimal disruption to
operations.
Which feature or action should the technical specialist recommend to the customer to improve
performance for this application?

A customer wants to add a fully populated BladeCenter chassis to their existing core-edge SAN.
They have suffered performance issues in the past due to congestion and over-utilization of interswitch links (ISL). The customer has asked what is the best practice guideline concerning ISL
oversubscription ratio.
Which one of the following ratios does the technical specialist provide?

What is one of the most important considerations for the number of LUN5 required for optimum
performance in an XIV Gen3 Storage System environment?

A D38800 logical volume is composed of a set of what?

What is the earliest model of tape drive format that is compatible with TS1 140 tape drives?

A customer has two redundant fabrics with four switches per fabric1 and each fabric has two
VSAN5.
What is the minimum number of out-of-band connections required by Fabric Manager to discover
and manage the fabrics?

To effectively perform a comparative analysis, a customer needs to compare the form, function,
and features of IBM technology to equivalent technology from EMC.
Where can the technical specialist find this information?