Virtualized Storage IBM V2 Set 1

A customer has IBM Spectrum Virtualize at the primary location and IBM Storwize V7000 at the DR location. The customer purchased IBM VSC for both locations and wants to set up Global Mirror. What has to be done to the IBM Storwize V7000 system to support this functionality?

An IBM i customer had performance requirements and is considering flash-based storage using an IBM FlashSystem V9000. The customer plans to move all data to the IBM FlashSystem V9000 with native IBM i attachment. Which connection protocol is required for this environment?

A customer has just learned about IBM Data Reduction Pools and Data Deduplication for the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software for the IBM Storwize Family. How are these functions licensed?

The customer is using an IBM SVC to manage storage capacity and plans to add some flash capacity to resolve some application performance concerns caused by month-end reporting operations. These applications have acceptable performance for the rest of the month. How should the customer automate the use of the flash capacity to manage these monthly workload peaks?

A customer has a single, non-IBM storage system with 100 drives of the same capacity. The storage administrators spend most of their time trying to eliminate hot spots. The customer is considering an IBM Storwize V5020 purchase with approximately the same number of drives. Which IBM Storwize feature helps resolve these issues?

A customer is considering the purchase of an IBM Storwize V5030, but data space is a challenge. Which tool helps the customer to see how much data space can be saved when compared to the size of the current disk system?

Which tool can be used to quickly estimate the compression ratio for a SVC environment?

Which tool is used to calculate usable storage space for IBM Storwize disk subsystems?

What must be configured and installed to use VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) with IBM Storwize solutions?

What is the minimum number of paths that an IBM Storwize node canister should have for each host according to best practices?