A customer is willing to consolidate several servers running Oracle and DB2 databases from several departments on a single server, while keeping them administratively separate. They are concerned about licensing after consolidation, because they are not willing to pay for Oracle licenses for the cores running DB2 and pay for DB2 licenses on cores running Oracle. What would be the best method to handle this situation, to make the environment compliant and achieve the customer demands?
A customer has two Power 570 servers that need to be replaced to accommodate company growth. The first server runs a transactional workload with high server usage during the day (8am-8pm) The second server runs analytic queries based on the transactional data during the night (10pm-6am). A technical sizing analysis determined that each server would require (18) POWERS 3.52GHz cores and 160GB RAM, considering the needed growth. What would be the most cost-efficient way to satisfy the customer needs?
A customer requires each AIX or IBM i LPAR to have access to two different VLANs but without VLAN tagging. They plan to have dual VIO Servers on the same POWER8 system, using Ether Channel and SEA for each VLAN. What is the minimum requirement to support the configuration?
A customer has a requirement for four partitions, each with 1TB of Storage They want to put a new S814 machine in. but only have 4U available in the rack. Which POWER8 option accomplishes this?
A customer consolidated several environments running IBM i, Linux and AIX into an S824. Now the system's installed memory is insufficient. The customer believes that the Active Memory Expansion feature may resolve the memory issue. Which of the following operating systems is capable of using the compression and decompression technology to resolve the issue?
Which tape backup option is supported for migration from a POWER6 520 with a SCSI attached external LTO-3 tape drive to a POWER8 S814, and is read compatible with LTO-3?