A customer has a storage requirement for a mixed IBM Power AIX and System z environment. They require approximately 3 TB of high performance disk for their System z environment. They require approximately 32 TB of low-performance disk for their System p environment. The storage specialist is using Capacity Magic to configure an IBM DS8700. Which configuration is most appropriate for this customer?
A customer wants to consolidate storage from four IBM System p servers and one large IBM System i server on a high end disk subsystem. The customer does not have a SAN installed. The customer will require approximately 24 TB of capacity for System p and 20 TB of capacity for System i. The customer states that performance of the System i system is most important. Capacity, multi-path access, and replication functions are important for the System p servers. Which solution best satisfies the customer requirements?
A customer has a primary (A) and a secondary (B) local data center. Now they plan to setup a third data center (C) approximately 700 kilometers away. All centers use DS8000. They need to have mission critical data available and consistent in all three sites. IBM is proposing a Metro Global Mirror solution. Which of the following licensed functions are required in the secondary (B) local data center machine?.
A customer would like to implement an IBM System Storage DS8000 solution that requires 225 TB raw capacity. They are convinced that 450 GB is the optimum size for their business applications. There is limited space available for additional machines in the data center. Which solution meets best this requirement?
A customer with a small IT budget has one data center. Their main application is a database running on an IBM System Storage DS8000. The database has a data change rate of 50% per day. Once a week, they must do a point-in-time backup from the database to tape. The time it takes to run the backup now exceeds the backup window allowed. The customer requests a proposal to reduce database downtime caused by running backups, with nearly zero impact to production volumes. In addition to the tape backup, which DS8000 feature should a technical specialist propose?
A financial customer has three data centers that are four kilometers apart. Their SAP application data needs to be kept synchronized within 10 milliseconds. Which solution satisfies the customer's recovery time objective?
The storage specialist sized a DS8800 proposal with eight host adapters in the four-port version. 240 drives of the 146GB-15k rpm type will be installed. The proposal needs to meet a very competitive price. The customer will have only minor capacity growth in the future. Which of the following solutions best meets these requirements?
A customer has requested an IBM System Storage DS8700 solution to meet the following requirements:
-20% yearly growth
-29,000 IOPS
-approximately 50/50 mix of read/write operations
-small (4 KB) data transfers The storage specialist has created a Disk Magic model in which each port is capable of approximately 2,900 to 3,100 IOPS. What is the minimum number of ports that should be configured on the DS8700 to handle the projected workload for the first year?
A customer has an IBM System Storage DS8700 and wants to reach the highest possible throughput in the back-end for a storage-pool-striped volume out of an extent pool with 8 ranks. Over how many device adapter pairs should a technical specialist spread the workload?
A bank has requested proposals for a storage solution to upgrade their disaster recovery processes for their IBM System z, UNIX, and Microsoft Windows environment. The solution must simulate a multi-site environment and provide the customer the ability to evaluate Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, Global Mirror for z/ OS, and FlashCopy. 120 TB physical capacity is required per site. Only Fibre Channel drives can be used. Which solution best meets the specified requirements?