A customer is adding a TS3500 Tape Library to an existing tape environment. Which statement is true about the necessity of a Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) in this situation?
A customers dump window is shrinking. To reduce dump job times, the customer is evaluating a TS7700 Virtualization Engine. Which tool should be used to model the new hardware solution?
A customer has a TS3500 Tape Library in a z/OS environment. They also have a 3592-C06 controller with two direct-connected FICON channels and four 3592-J1A drives in a 3584-D22 drive frame. A second mainframe is brought into the environment. The customer wants to add four 3592 drives for the new mainframe. What is the LEAST expensive way to add the additional drives and provide connectivity to the second mainframe?
A customer is experiencing poor performance on the IBM System Storage TS7700 Virtualization Engine for some batch tape jobs. Which IBM tool can be used to report performance statistics to aid in determining the nature of the problem over a 24-hour period?
A customer has IBM 3592 Model J1A drives with 10,000 IBM 3592 JA cartridges. Using IBM TS1130 Tape Drives, what is the minimum number of IBM 3592 JB cartridges that are required to replace the IBM 3592 JA cartridges? (Note: Assume the application is able to fill cartridges to capacity.)
A Business Partner receives a Request for Proposal (RFP) that describes the implementation of a centralized data backup solution. The customer has five campus buildings inter-connected with Ethernet. Each building has three servers and each server has a 10 GB database that requires nightly backup. The backups must be completed in a four-hour window of time. The customers technical staff manager is considering implementing IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. What is the next step that the Business Partner sales representative should take in this situation?