A manufacturing customer has an IBM BladeCenler H chassis with tour, HX5 with MAX5 4-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
What is the minimum number of power supplies needed for this configuration to have full redundancy?
A System x client is interested in IBM ToolsCenter Bootable Media Creator but is concerned about functions. Which of the following describes the functions of ToolsCenter Bootable Media?
A Customer has Director V5 installed and is considering Systems Director V6. They ask how BladeCenter Configuration Manager works with this new version. Which of the following is the correct answer?
A retail company plans to consolidate 180 existing dual processor Xeon servers, all running a web server application on Windows Server 2003. They are planning consolidating to a single x3950 X5 running vSphere. Which of the following should be discussed with this customer?
A prospective customer has selected Fiber Channel (FC) for performance reasons. The prospect does not appear to understand the terminology and options of the fiber channel but is very interested in learning before investing money in this technology. What steps should be taken to make sure the customer is satisfied with the solution?
A customer wants to install an IBM BladeCenter infrastructure but is concerned about the cost of the full fabric internal fibre switches. Consequently, the customer is considering an N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIVJ capable switch. Which of the following should be mentioned to the customer regarding the NPIV switch?
A banking customer deployed an IBM BladeCenter chassis with one Brocade 8Gb SAN switch module. The customer requires an 8Gb uplink or higher. Which conliguration will meet this request?