Power Systems with POWER7 and IBM i Sales Skills - v1 Set 4

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A customer wants to consolidate 2 older iSeries systems and 10 older pSeries systems on to a Power 750 with 6 active cores. What is the least costly way to create multiple Logical Partitions (LPARs)?

Purchase PowerVM Standard Edition for the entire system. Purchase PowerVM Enterprise Edition for the entire system. Use the integrated function of IBM i to create all of the LPARs. Purchase PowerVM only for the cores that will have more than one LPAR.

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A company using a competitive system frequently misses deadlines when applying operating system maintenance updates to support database, security, and backup software, and needs a solution for this issue. Why should the company use IBM i on Power Systems?

IBM i permits concurrent application of some operating system fixes, reducing the need for planned system outages. The built-in DB2 relational database supports seamless software updates for IBM i database, securityand backup software. The IBM i Entitled Software Support website supports direct downloads of software maintenance updates in a concurrent background operation. Backup and Recovery Management Software (BRMS) is integrated within IBM i allowing for fastersoftware maintenance updates while system backups are performed.

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A prospective customer is concerned with the cost of maintaining the servers and is considering Power Systems with IBM i to replace an aging Intel and Windows .Net infrastructure. The customer wants to support an ongoing develpoment environment. Which consideration will enable the customer to keep support costs low in this situation?

DB2 is an integrated database and therefore no DB2 licenses are needed. Plugins are available for MS Studio to allow the customers developers to produce .Net applications forthe IBM i environment. DB2 can act as a storage engine for MS SQL server (just like MySQL) allowing the customer tomaintain the application database structure. IBM i developers use Rational Development Platform that can develop applications such as Java andPHP, as well as use both MySQL and DB2 databases in the same tool.

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A customer plans to order a 6-core Power 740 and will run WebSphere Application Server, Sametime and Lotus Domino, each in separate partitions. The total workload will require 4 cores. What should be proposed to the customer?

4 entitlements of IBM i Application Server License 6 entitlements of IBM i Application Server License 1 entitlements of IBM i Application Server License, 3 entitlement of IBM i Server License 3 entitlements of IBM i Application Server License, 1 entitlement of IBM i Server License

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