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A chemical company has experienced significant market growth. They now have a large number of singleworkload Linux servers and are paying high hardware maintenance costs. These servers cannot handle unexpected peaks in demand from business units and customers. What IBM resource can help this company establish a better IT roadmap?
2.
Which of the following is an architectural advantage of Power Systems over Sun systems?
3.
A customer with a multiple system, multiple partition environment frequently misses deadlines when performing scheduled maintenance. This has a negative impact on availability. Which product or feature will solve the problem?
4.
A customer needs to move applications between servers to balance the load without affecting application availability. What should be recommended to the customer?
5.
What is an advantage of IBM Workload Partitions over Solaris Containers?
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A customer is using VMware on x86 servers and VMotion to relocate application partitions between different physical servers. What PowerVM function is similar to this function?
7.
A customer has been told that SUN has more experience in virtualization than IBM. How can the Power Systems representative refute this statement?
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A medical research company runs computeintensive applications. The company has reviewed systems from SUN, HP and IBM. Which benchmark should be recommended?
9.
What is required to dynamically move a live application from one POWER5 server to another?
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An HP representative has told a prospective customer that Itanium systems are based on industry standard processors and IBM uses a proprietary processor. What statement demonstrates the industry acceptance of POWER processors?