A customer has an xSeries x445 server attached to a DS4500 storage server containing two EXP710
disk expansion drawers with 14 disks in each. The x445 is to be used for a video streaming application.
The customer wants to make the most cost-effective use of the disk capacity while retaining fault tolerance.
Which of the following solutions will satisfy the requirements?
A customer has a small SAN with both Linux and Windows servers attached to a DS4300 storage
server through a redundant fabric. Which of the following is the most important consideration to ensure that
this configuration would function properly?
A specialist is monitoring performance on a server. The data is on another partition within the same
array as the OS. The following information is available:
The average record written to disk is 16KB
The I/O block size is 2KB
The stripe size on the RAID array is 16KB
Which of the following will improve performance without rebuilding the operating system?
A customer has an x445 and uses the internal LSI adapter to manage two 146GB drives in the chassis.
The customer is noticing performance issues when deploying a database with significant write activity on the
internal drives. Should they consider using a ServeRAID-6M with 256MB of cache instead, and why or
why not?
A retail company needs to add more servers to their Citrix farm. They are considering 1U servers and
High End Enterprise Servers. Their current need is internal storage only, with the possibility to attach to a
SAN later. Which TWO of the following features of the IBM x366 would exceed the 1U server's
capabilities?
A small bio-technical company is interested in implementing a 32-node Linux cluster. They developed
their own software that allows all of the nodes to work on the same problem at the same time. The
application requires messages to be passed between the nodes. Each node will require access to a shared
storage pool of around 500GB. To identify throughput requirements for the storage pool, which of the
following is the most appropriate question to ask?
A customer needs a test bed server to run 64-bit modeling, simulation, and other technical applications
which require 2-way processors and 6GB RAM in a clustered mode. They also indicated that this server
might be used to run 32-bit applications. Which of the following servers should be recommended to meet
the requirements at the least cost?
A customer wants to run VMWare ESX on an x445 with a large number of virtual machines running
Windows 2003 Server as a Disaster Recovery (DR) Site for the production environment. Which of the
following questions would most impact the memory configuration?
A customer is planning to implement a new x445 in their datacenter. Which TWO of the following
should the customer prepare prior to the implementation to ensure a trouble free installation?
A customer needs to deploy ten dual processor Xeon servers. Six servers will be running Linux and
Apache, and the other four will be Citrix presentation servers. The customer's main concerns are the rack
space and the option to have SATA drives. The maximum memory required is 8GB. Which of the
following options will provide the best price and performance?