IBM-Enterprise Storage Technical Support V3

A customer with Brocade-based fabrics is looking for a quick and simple cost-effective method to gather information about the SAN environment. The informational items desired include total number of active ports, unused ports by switch, ISL oversubscription ratios, and a Visio diagram. What should the technical specialist suggest to the customer?

A D38800 has Easy Tier enabled and Easy Tier data collection is set to AutoMode. Which performance statistics are collected?

Which statement is true about the Easy Tier functionality that is available on the DSS000, SAN Volume Controller, and Storwize V7000 storage product families?

A customer has an archiving requirement that is considered Big Data. Every 8 hours an average of 4.5 Petabates of data must be written to tape. The customer currently is considering Oracle SL8500 to meet this requirement. Why would the IBM TS3500 be a better technical fit?

A customer has just installed a ProtecTlER TS7620 SM2, and has accessed the PT Manager for the first time. Where would the implementation engineer fulfill Registration, E-mail Alerts, and Call Home configuration setup?

A customer has recently installed a SONAS system and now wants to set up backups to the virtual tape library (VTL) using their existing Symantec NetBackup data management application. The server running the NetBackup application has 1 GE connectivity, while a different server with 10 GE connectivity is used as the NDMP tape server. Which options offers the least impact on the customer's current infrastructure?

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 inter-switch 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?