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A customer has two data centers, 500 kilometers apart. The customer requests a proposal for new storage subsystems and a disaster recovery solution that provides consistent data in the event of a disaster at the local site. Which IBM System Storage DS8000 solution should the storage specialist propose to the client?
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To optimize performance on an IBM System Storage DS8000, the input/output activity should be spread across _____.
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A healthcare provider has two applications that they need to redundantly protect in a SAN environment. Their patient record application runs on Oracle 11i and consists of many small, randomly accessed files. The database is kept on three clustered Sun servers and currently uses 30 TB of data space. Their imaging application that retains and manages x-rays, consists of Filenet, CommonStore, and TSM running on an IBM Power750 server, and is currently using 65 TB of data space. Which of the following disk solutions meets the customers requirement?
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A customer has an existing IBM System Storage DS8700 2-way model with 8 mega packs of 300 GB disks and 16 fibre ports. How many additional fibre ports and mega packs can be installed in the base frame?
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A customer has the following non-virtualized servers:
-three Exchange servers, each with 2.8 TB database
-five System i Domino servers, each with 2 TB database
-20 TB usable capacitySun/SAP cluster
-70 TB usable capacity of System p requirement
-annual growth rate of 12 TB usable capacity per year What is the most cost-effective solution for three years?
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A customer business requirement addresses data encryption implemented in tape and disk media. They plan to deploy a DS8700 to provide enterprise class storage and plan to configure the DS8700 with SSD and Fiber Channel disk drives. Which statement is TRUE regarding disk encryption?
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A customer using an IBM System Storage DS8700 is facing performance problems. After the analysis by the technical specialist, the diagnosis indicates that the cache hits may be improved by a cache upgrade. How can the system be monitored in order to check the benefits of the cache upgrade?
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A customer with a single IBM System Storage DS8100 reports severe performance problems for some of their applications when a particular data warehousing application creates a heavy load. What is the most cost effective way to resolve this issue?
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A storage specialist is explaining to the customer that relational databases need an additional point-in-time copy process to assure data in memory buffers are flushed to disk prior to the hardware based snapshot command being executed. Which IBM software solution provides usable and consistent point-in-time data copies?
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A customer is planning a combined solution of a 2 node SVC and DS8700 with 128x300 GB FC disks. During the TDA the reviewer compares the machine configuration with the customer's expectations. Which of the following customer requirements must be considered?