IBM Midrange Storage Technical Support V4

A customer has storage systems from HP and EMC connected on its Fibre Channel network. They are for separate departments and the customer is considering a new system for the financial department and a consolidation of the existing storage systems. Which feature should the storage specialist emphasize on IBM Storwize V7000 to address this concern?

A customer has a DS5100 at one site and an EMC VNX5100 at a second site. The customer requires a storage solution to manage pools of block storage across the different storage systems. It is critical that storage can be deployed from either storage pool without any outage of the attached host system. The customer also requires the ability to maintain a fully synchronized copy of data at a second site with very low latency between them. Which solution should you recommend for this customer?

OpenStack Block Storage enables you to add extra block-level storage to which component?

A customer has a mission-critical application that requires the highest performance while providing redundancy. Which RAID configuration should be utilized?

A customer requires a low cost data at rest encryption storage solution. You suggest the IBM Storwize V7000 model 524 solution. The customer inquiries how the keys are generated and where the encryption keys are stored. Where is the master encryption key of the IBM Storwize V7000 stored?

A potential customer is looking for a storage solution. The customer requires more than two I/O Groups and local HDD storage. What is the best solution for this customer?

A client wants to enlarge its existing IT infrastructure storage capacity by also reusing existing storage. The client is looking at the IBM Storwize family. Which tool should be used to assist with justifying the acquisition?

A customer is considering the costs of a storage system and is most concerned about the overall cost over the system's lifecycle. Which cost factor should be considered?

A customer wants to use a database application on the new Storwize family system. Which question should you ask to determine the correct disk technology (SAS, SAS-NL, SSD) for this client?

A customer has a storage system with a number of databases and has a business requirement to provide development with a sample of real data for testing. The customer is also concerned with cost. Which solution is appropriate for this customer?