IBM-IBM XIV Storage System Technical Solutions V4 Exam

In a six module XIV system, I/O activity involving a specific logical volume is handled by how many spindles?

Which activity occurs after upgrading an XIV system from nine modules to ten modules?

An XIV administrator wants to migrate a legacy DS4700 to XIV. The DS4700 is mirrored across a low- bandwidth link to a second DS4700 at a second site. The XIV volumes will need to be mirrored to a second XIV using asynchronous replication. What feature will help perform this task?

PowerVM is a requirement for XIV host attach to which of the following operating systems?

How does IBM XIV SSD technology provide longer life over competitors' use of SSD technology?

How does the data migration feature enable the smooth transition of a host to an XIV system?

During data migration from a legacy storage system to the XIV system, there are eight hosts accessing eight separate volumes. What is the maximum number of volume migrations allowed in the background while the eight hosts are actively running?

The XIV host attachment kit provides which of these functions?

A customer wants to set up a Windows 2008 cluster with three nodes, with application data presented from a fifteen module XIV Gen3. All three nodes will run applications under normal operating conditions. Each node has a single dual- port Fibre Channel host bus adapter. Assuming a dual fabric SAN, how should the cluster nodes be zoned to the XIV within each SAN?

On an XIV system, how can a thin provisioned volume be changed to a regular provisioned volume?