A customer has 6.5 TB with 146 GB 15k disk drives on an IBM System Storage DS8700. They want to add 15 TB using 300 GB 15k disk drives. The customer is concerned about performance and wants to know if the DS8700 has the performance capability. What is the appropriate way to model the performance?
A customer has an IBM System Storage Enterprise Storage Server and several EMC CX3 systems installed in a data center, attached to IBM System p servers. As a step toward data consolidation, they intend to put all data on a new DS8700. What would be the most important data migration factors to consider?
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?
A customer wants to collect performance data from a newly installed IBM System Storage DS8700 to determine if the system meets expected benchmarks using their application test data. Which tool best gathers the performance data?
A customer has purchased three IBM System Storage DS8700 systems and would like to have their administrators trained. Which training alternative provides the necessary training with the least financial impact?
A customer recently installed new a SAN with an IBM System Storage DS8700 and several open systems servers to address a need for storage consolidation and still provide good response time. They have asked the Business Partner technical representative for the most complete IBM product that would allow them to do performance reporting of the new SAN environment. What is the best solution?
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?
The Business Partner technical specialist is called to determine if the addition of host ports on an IBM System Storage DS8700 has improved users' response times for an IBM System p server running SAP. How can the improvement be verified?
A customers SAN environment has undergone significant growth over the past two years. They have also suffered a high turnover rate with administrative personnel. The customer has asked a storage specialist for help in documenting and understanding their changing SAN environment. The ability to make configuration changes to devices would be a plus. Which tool should the storage specialist suggest?