IBM Power Systems with POWER7 Common Sales Skills -v2 Set 1

A sales professional is engaged in a competitive sales situation against a non-IBM solution that is unfamiliar to them. Which resource should be engaged first?

A customer has several dedicated LPARs. The key application in one LPAR temporarily needs more processing power. How can performance be improved?

Which of the following can be used to provide a basis for proving that Power Systems have a lower cost of ownership than x86 systems?

A Power 740 customer with 4 cores licensed to AIX is planning to add 4 additional cores and a partition for IBM i. They have sized the new IBM i workload at 1.7 cores and AIX will use the other 6.3 cores. What software will be necessary to enable this solution'?

A sales professional is engaged in a competitive sales situation against a non-IBM solution that is unfamiliar to them. Which resource should be engaged first?

A customer has several dedicated LPARs. The key application in one LPAR temporarily needs more processing power. How can performance be improved?

An existing IBM customer needs to acquire a new Power Systems server with the following characteristics:
Must support 12 processor cores
Must accommodate the largest number of adapters in the system unit Must fit within 4U of existing rack space
Which of the following should be proposed'?

A Power 740 customer with 4 cores licensed to AIX is planning to add 4 additional cores and a partition for IBM i. They have sized the new IBM i workload at 1.7 cores and AIX will use the other 6.3 cores. What software will be necessary to enable this solution?

A customer has several dedicated LPARs. The key application in one LPAR temporarily needs more processing power. How can performance be improved?

Which of the following can be used to provide a basis for proving that Power Systems have a lower cost of ownership than x86 systems?