A customer has 12 x445s and 20 x365s in their datacenter that are dedicated to production workloads.
The customer wants to standardize on IBM Director as their Intel environment systems management
platform. Which server platform is supported as a Director server?
A network administrator wants to analyze the historical performance of the servers in the organization
and forecast the system performance needs into the future. Which add-on component of IBM Director
would be used to assist with this task?
A Dell customer decided to use IBM Director and xSeries to manage their servers. They purchased 10
IBM x336 servers and they already have 75 various Dell servers. Which TWO steps need to be verified to
be able to manage the mixed environment with IBM Director?
A company wants to replace an existing UNIX database server with a new application running on
Microsoft SQL Server. Sizing analysis shows that a system with at least eight Xeon MP processors and
24GB RAM will be required for the central database server. Which of the following will meet the
requirements at the lowest cost?
A customer has requested an initial proposal for two x346s to be used as file servers. They feel that
using a direct attached DS4300 with ten 146GB drives will be more than sufficient storage space. They do
not currently own any IBM equipment. An answer to which of the following questions would be of greatest
benefit when looking to enhance the offering at minimal expense and ensure a good end user experience?
A customer is considering consolidating their file servers by moving them into a virtual environment
using VMWare ESX Server running on an x445 system. The ratio of consolidation is expected to be about
15:1. Which TWO of the Total Cost of Ownership factors are the key benefits of this solution?
An administrator has been asked to look at the different types of Emulex host bus adapters that can be
used in an x445 server. From the following options, where can the most relevant information be found to
assist in making a valid choice?
A customer wants to integrate an x445 running SuSE with their existing EMC storage infrastructure.
Which of the following tasks needs to be done to ensure that the solution will work properly?
An existing IBM customer has a few pSeries servers running DB2 on AIX in their environment. The
DB2 application contains the database for an order entry application. An xSeries SQL database server
replicating from DB2 is added for off-line analysis purposes. The customer wants to know if consolidating
the storage and centralized backup is possible. What are the options available to accomplish this?