A customer has a combination of fifteen Windows file servers with direct attached storage and three Power Systems with AIX database servers SAN attached to a DS4700. They would like to upgrade and plan for 40 TB capacity. The customer needs to move to a more scalable storage system to include all servers. Which of the following would be most appropriate to ask first?
A banking customer has the following requirements for an IBM BladeCenter solutionwith high speed fibre channel -- four 40socket Microsoft SQL servers -- two physical Microsoft Active Directory Servers -- twenty-two physical Citrix servers -- three physical Web servers -- one physical vCenter server -- eight vSphere hosts. Which configuration minimally satisfies these requirements?
A business partner wants to identify risks, develop action plans to manage the risks, and confirm resources required for a successful implementation of a BladeCenter solution to their customer. Which of the following addresses all elements of this situation?
A customer indicates that they will be moving their storage from the existing Fiber Channel SAN to iSCSI. Which of the following is the most appropriate recommendation for connectivity?
A manufacturing customer has an IBM BladeCenter H chassis with four HX5 with MAX5 socket blades installed. Each blade has the optional Fibre Channel Expansion card. The customer wants redundancy and is going to install the following configuration: -- two Brocade 20-Port SAN Switch Modules -- two Nortel Networks 1/10 GB Uplink ESM -- a redundant AMM. Which of the following is the minimum number of power supplies needed for this configuration to have full redundancy?
A client is experiencing bottleneck in their IT environment. The customer executive council asks the System x sales professional for advice. Which of the following responses address this issue?
A customer is considering a System x solution that appears on the TDA trigger list. In which phase of the sales and implementation cycle should a TDA be performed?