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A storage administrator has added some 4 TB Nearline SAS to its IBM Storwize V7000 and wants to follow IBM's best practice. What is the preferred RAID type to use?
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A customer has a business requirement to replicate data between two sites and achieve a recovery point objective (RPO) as low as possible with the replicated data as up-to-date as possible. The existing inter-site link is a shared resource and can become congested. Which replication technology should be suggested to the customer?
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What is the IBM solution used to manage encryption keys for IBM Tape and Elastic Storage Server Advanced Edition?
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A prospective customer has two non-IBM storage systems in production which have the maximum allowable configuration of disk drives. These systems have not been fully depreciated and must remain in production. Which advantage of the Storwize family of products should be discussed with the customer to address this situation?
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A customer is looking for a cost-effective, all-flash solution. Which benefit would the FlashSystem 840 offer this customer?
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A customer has a legacy storage system and is looking to move to a new IBM storage platform. Which standard feature of the Storwize family will accomplish this?
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A customer notices that at the end of the month the storage system performance slows down due to a payroll program constantly accessing employee records. Which licensed feature of the IBM Storwize V7000 helps alleviate this performance issue assuming all hardware requirements are met?
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A customer requests that a sales specialist demonstrate the performance improvement that will be achieved on the Windows environment with a proposed IBM Storwize V7000 with Easy Tier. Which type of Windows data should the sales specialist gather from the customer?
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A customer wants to purchase two IBM Storwize V7000 Unified systems that will be located at separate facilities and needs to share file data. Which IBM Storwize V7000 Unified systems feature addresses this requirement?
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A customer is discussing the purchase of an IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and needs to decide which pre-set RAID algorithm to use. The customer is aware of an option called "Balance RAID 10" and has asked for a description of how it functions. What are the characteristics of this RAID type?