Which function controls host access to a volume in a switched fabric?

A customer has a large non-IBM storage environment, EMO and HDS, with a mixture of
VMware, Linux, Unisys mainframe and Windows, including Windows 2003, based hosts. The
customer is very interested in XIV storage and the technical specialist has been asked to
provide an IBM XIV storage solution with a migration plan to replace his current storage
environment.
What is the biggest obstacle to an all IBM solution?

What is the maximum number of drives supported in a SONAS single array?

A customer with a DS8800 believes that additional host ports need to be connected into the
SAN environment. Which resource or application would be used to determine whether the
customer’s suspicions are correct?

How does the weight and height reduction delivery option change the delivery configuration
of a XIV Gen3?

HOTSPOT
The exhibit represents the XIV Gen3 GUI. Click on the icon that shows the “QOS
Performance Class” option.

Easy Tier on a DS8800 in Automatic Mode performs its operations at which level?

A customer is building a VMware infrastructure for several hundred VM guests. Many of
these guests run mission-critical applications with large numbers of users.
Which feature of XIV Gen3 should be emphasized with this customer?

A technical specialist is in a discussion with a customer regarding changing the customer’s
storage environment from EMC to IBM. They are describing the environment.
Which host environment causes the most design challenges?

While discussing evaluation criteria for storage acquisition, a customer uses the following
phrases: “acquisition cost,” “software licenses,” “staffing,” and “ongoing maintenance cost.”
Which financial term best corresponds to the customer’s discussion points?