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A customers fibre attached DELL EMC storage has reached its end of life and needs additional capacity. The customer cannot afford to have its applications offline for an extended period of time during the storage refresh and is considering an IBM Storwize V5030 or IBM Storwize V7000 as a replacement. Which included IBM Storwize function helps this customer?
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An IBM SVC customer currently uses older nodes and wants to upgrade to take advantage of compression software. Which feature needs to be ordered with the new SV1 nodes to take advantage of compression?
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A customer has existing storage that is not capable of encryption. How can IBM Storwize V7000 provide encryption to externally virtualized storage?
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Which tool is used to model the performance of IBM Storwize disk subsystems?
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A customer wants to move an MDisk between storage pools. Which action accomplishes this task?
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A customer requests a copy of an existing volume for development purposes that can be modified without affecting the original volume. There is no expectation that the volume will be refreshed or need to reference the original production data. Which FlashCopy function can accomplish this request?
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A mandatory requirement in a customer RFI is to provide protection against a single drive failure, and that data and one stripe of parity and striped across all array members. The customer wants the fastest possible rebuild. Which RAID level on the IBM Storwize V7000 meets these requirements?
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A customer is considering purchasing an IBM Storwize V7000 but is concerned about performance scalability. Significant growth is expected. What should the IBM technical specialist discuss with the customer?
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A customer has multiple virtualized storage systems and requires that volumes are optimally placed for performance. Which member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Family includes analytics-driven tiered storage optimization to move full volumes to the most cost-effective tier?
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What is the compression guarantee that IBM will support for VMware if the customer does not wish to run the Comprestimator tool for the IBM Storwize V7000?