IBM-Enterprise Storage Technical Support V3 Set 1

A customer has just learned that a brand new TS7650G ProtecTIER installation will not run as a virtual tape library with Symantec's NetBackup OST feature concurrently. When should this implementation situation have been discovered?

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?

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?

A customer has a large repository of geophysical data (>500 TBs and growing). This data is primarily in larger single- file datasets. This customer would like to reduce their overall cost, floor space, and power consumption. The customer has also communicated that the data must be accessible as a file system and provide reasonable access times. Which technology best meets these customer needs?

What are the main logical components in the DS8000?

A customer's OPEX and CAPEX costs associated with their current storage estate are growing rapidly. Which tool shows the financial benefits of moving to an IBM storage estate?