IBM System Storage DS8000 Technical Solutions V5

A customer is ordering an IBM DS8886 to support an IBM AIX system and has a requirement that certain applications get as much bandwidth as possible. Which feature should be recommended to the customer?

A customer is purchasing an IBM DS884 with all drives being the same size and speed. Only Windows hosts will be connected. This customer wishes to minimize storage administrator duties. How can this be accomplished?

A customer in a HyperSwap environment using DB2 needs to improve transactional response time and log throughput. Which IBM DS8880 standard feature should be discussed with the customer?

A customer wants to use Global Mirror to replicate at 1000 kilometers but is concerned about the capacity at the remote site. What is the minimum number of total copies of the data that must exist at the local and remote sites to support Global Mirror?

A customer is concerned about having separate ISL's in its SAN to handle both FICON and FCP replication traffic originating from its z13 system. Which technology addresses this concern?

A customer is migrating to an IBM DS8886 to replace a competitive EMC VMAX. The customer requires maximizing performance without special tuning and is concerned about reducing hot spots in arrays. What IBM DS8886 feature addresses this requirement?

A customer is experiencing poor response time with its existing storage. Which IBM DS8880 feature is designed to reduce latency?

A z/OS customer with a 10 TB IBM DS8700 is concerned with its collocation cost due to the footprint used by the current storage that is due to refresh. How does the IBM DS8880 family help this customer?

A customer has the following requirements for a new DS8886 with 192 TB of physical capacity: 13 TB of z/OS capacity 104 TB of Open systems capacity The customer will also FlashCopy 28 TB of the open systems capacity. Which are the minimum license capacity requirements for this solution?

How should an IBM DS8886 administrator access the GUI?