A customer is looking at the purchase of two ProtecTIER systems with one for their
production data center and another located at their DR data center. Which option should the
specialist discuss that could help the customer make the decision?

A customer wants to improve their Recovery Point Objective for a set of volumes to 2 hours
by keeping a snapshot every hour for 7 days of this consistency group of 10 volumes. The
volumes contain databases that are reorganized every night.
What is a concern for this solution on XIV Gen3?

What is the meaning of the term “nominal capacity” when discussing Protect TIER?

A customer wants to expand the capacity of their minimally configured SONAS appliance by
160TB of storage.

An XIV Gen3 was ordered with the wrong power option. What must be done to correct this
situation?

A customer has a TS3500 Tape Library with LTO-3 drives installed. As part of a hardware
upgrade, the drives are being changed to LTO-6. The customer is concerned about reusing
the existing media, including already purchased but unused tape cartridges.
What advice should the technical specialist give the customer?

What will happen if a customer refuses to install a Customer-Replaceable Unit (CRU)?

A customer has a SAN Volume Controller, and they need to separate the nodes in an I/O
group across the sites. How far can the nodes be separated?

A customer is considering adding additional IBM storage to the environment. The customer
is unaware of the current system usage or performance.
What is available from IBM that will allow the customer to track real time, historical data and
exported reports to justify the purchase of the new IBM storage systems?

A customer is requesting an 1BM XIV Gen 3 and would like to order a full module system the
with SSD drives installed in the modules. The customer would like to know if the SSD drives
will provide Easy Tier functionality allowing the SSD drives to expand usable capacity.
How should the technical specialist respond?