A company has acquired another company and is consolidating data centers. During the consolidation, half of the users of a business critical application lost access. The users who maintained access experienced slow performance. What is the first action the SAN/storage administrator should take to determine the source of the problem?
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 an EMC Symmetrix DMX3000 that is at the end of lease. The environment consists of IBM System p, IBM System i, and IBM System z. The customer is evaluating EMC, HDS, and IBM storage as possible replacements. They are interested in comparing the performance of all three disk subsystems. Which tool compares performance?
A customer has one mainframe and ten open system servers in their current environment. They plan to add the servers to an IBM DS8700 system with four array sites. How many extent pools should be created to provide the best resource utilization of the DS8700?
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?
An IBM System Storage DS8700 is being installed at a global corporations headquarters location. The storage must be available worldwide. A great deal of coordination is required to schedule this implementation across the corporation. Who is best positioned to fill the role of implementation resource coordinator?
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?