A customer is looking at IBM Software Defined Storage as a means to improve storage efficiency within a data
center.
Which service does IBM Software Defined Storage Data Plane offer?

A customer has several legacy storage arrays containing many hot spare disks. The customer has heard that
the IBM XIV does not have any hot spares.
What should the technical specialist explain to the customer about the way the IBM XIV works?

A customer experienced high growth of archive data (> 1PB). Its data centers are located in Houston, London,
and Berlin. The main goal is to connect geographically separated regions with more efficient data protection
schemes.
Which solution fulfils customer requirements?

A customer has experienced high drive failure and loss of data in its environment and is considering IBM XIV to
replace the existing storage.
Which IBM XIV benefit should the technical specialist highlight to address this customer’s concerns?

What is the minimum number of FCP/FICON host adapter cards required for redundancy in an IBM System
Storage DS8880?

A customer wants to replace a physical tape environment with a virtual tape library in its open systems
environment and is concerned about performance. The solution architect needs to validate performance
requirements for a proposed solution.
Which tool is used to capture inputs for the IBM virtual tape library performance tool?

Which option in the IBM TS7650G ProtecTIER Gateway is a supported host attachment configuration?

A solution architect has determined the amount of spindles needed to satisfy performance and RAID level
requirements for an IBM DS8880.
Which tool provides information on the number of spare drives included in the system?

A customer is thinking about purchasing IBM storage for the very first time and asks for IBM’s help to evaluate
life cycle cost comparisons between vendors.
How can this customer’s question be answered?

A customer has a single frame IBM TS3500 Tape Library with six 3592-E07 drives. A new open systems server
has recently purchased and, because of budget constraints, the customer is considering less expensive LTO-6
drives while protecting investment in existing tape cartridges.
What is the most economical way to achieve this goal?