A company has acquired another company and is consolidating data centers. During the consolidation, half of the users of a business critical application lost access. The users who maintained access experienced slow performance.
What is the first action the SAN/storage administrator should take to determine the source of the problem()
A.review SAN configuration, connectivity, and zoning
B.review application parameters for contention or tuning problems
C.use internal disk monitoring tools to determine the problem source
D.check the disk parameters in the OS setup on the systems
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The Business Partner technical specialist is called to determine if the addition of host ports on an IBM System Storage DS8700 has improved users’ response times for an IBM System p server running SAP.
How can the improvement be verified()
A.check the output of the "vmstat" command on LINUX
B.check the performance reports via Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data
C.check the performance reports via Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
D.check the output of the "iostat" command on AIX
A.to avoid using a more expensive dial-up modem
B.to load new licensed internal code
C.to achieve more efficient and faster problem resolution
D.to enable capacity on demand
A customer recently installed new a SAN with an IBM System Storage DS8700 and several open systems servers to address a need for storage consolidation and still provide good response time. They have asked the Business Partner technical representative for the most complete IBM product that would allow them to do performance reporting of the new SAN environment.
What is the best solution()
A.Tivoli Storage Manager
B.Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
C.Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition
D.Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition
A customer’s SAN environment has undergone significant growth over the past two years. They have also suffered a high turnover rate with administrative personnel. The customer has asked a
storage specialist for help in documenting and understanding their changing SAN environment. The ability to make configuration changes to devices would be a plus.
Which tool should the storage specialist suggest()
A.Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Fabric Manager
B.Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition
C.IBM TivoliNetView
D.Disk Magic
A customer has purchased three IBM System Storage DS8700 systems and would like to have their administrators trained.
Which training alternative provides the necessary training with the least financial impact()
A.purchase the training CD for the disk subsystem and have the staff do self-paced training
B.have the IBM Service Support Representative perform the training
C.contact IBM Education Services for an onsite training class
D.send one person at a time to an IBM training session
A customer using an IBM System Storage DS8700 is facing performance problems. After the analysis by the technical specialist, the diagnosis indicates that the cache hits may be improved by a cache upgrade.
How can the system be monitored in order to check the benefits of the cache upgrade()
A.using the "vmstat" command on the AIX servers connected via SAN to the DS8700 system
B.look at the IOPS using the DS8700
C.reading the performance reports via Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
D.generating reports using theTotalStorage Expert
An IBM Business Partner suggests an IBM System Storage DS8000 to a customer with a SAN
that is now configured with an EMC Symmetrix subsystem disk.
The customer wants to determine if new HBAs and software upgrades are needed on the servers if the EMC storage is replaced by the DS8000 What document must be carefully read to help address the customer’s concerns()
A.IBM System Storage DS8000: Host Systems Attachment Guide
B.DS8000 Interoperability Matrix
C.IBM System Storage DS8000: Introduction and Planning Guide
D.IBM System Storage Solution Handbook
A customer needs a remote data copy, data migration, and off-site backup solution. The solution cannot impact application performance. The sites are over continental distances.
Which characteristic of DS8700 Global Mirror makes it a good fit for this customer()
A.it provides synchronous mirroring on both sides
B.it can be implemented withoutFlashCopy volumes at the target site
C.with Global Mirror, the Metro Mirror functions can be used over continental distances
D.it has almost no impact on application performance because of its extremely short andadjustable coordination time
A current IBM System Storage DS8000 open systems customer needs a temporary copy of data that will be needed for only 12 hours.
Which DS8000 function best satisfies this requirement()
A.Multiple RelationshipFlashCopy
B.IncrementalFlashCopy
C.FlashCopy SE
D.Data SetFlashCopy
A customer requires an infrastructure to support disaster recovery of critical applications between two remote data centers. One data center is in Tokyo and one is in Beijing. The customer’s Recovery Point Objective (RPO) requires a six-hour window for a bandwidth of 100 MB/s and a new storage system for a total of 4 TB of data. They estimate 100 MB of new data produced hourly.
What data synchronization method would be recommended to meet the requirements()
A.Metro Mirror
B.FlashCopy
C.Global Mirror
D.Snapshot
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