A pharmaceutical company has a requirement for 8.5 TB of usable storage for a new data center. The customer has multiple host applications running on Solaris， Windows 2003， HP-U/X， Linux， and IBM System i platforms. 
Which IBM System Storage DS8000 volume configuration providesthe best performance and highest availability for this customer（）

A customer RFP requires installation of an open system SAN and migration of 40 TB currently residing on ten UNIX servers （on internal server disk）. The Service Level Agreement （SLA） requires no more than five minutes per week of planned downtime for backup. 
Which IBM System Storage solution is the most cost effective（）

A customer has a mission-critical application with redundant fabrics. The customer plans to replace older EMC Symmetrix 8830 systems with an IBM System Storage DS8700 and an IBM SAN Volume Controller （SVC）. 
Which statement best describes the way to minimize the impact of data migration on the production environment（）

mainframe customer would like to receive a proposal for a mainframe storage system with 120 TB raw capacity. The 
mainframe server load is not too high， and they need hard disk drives with the lowest possible power consumption to keep operating costs low. The customer will not increase the capacity of their mainframe applications in the future but rather invest later into their System p servers. 
Which of the following solutions best meets these requirements at the lowest cost（）

A bank has requested proposals for a storage solution to upgrade their disaster recovery processes for their IBM System z， UNIX， and Microsoft Windows environment. The solution must simulate a multi-site environment and provide the customer the ability to evaluate Metro Mirror， Global Mirror， Global Mirror for z/OS， and FlashCopy. 120 TB physical capacity is required per site. Only Fibre Channel drives can be used. 
Which solution best meets the specified requirements（）

A customer has an IBM System Storage DS8700 and wants to reach the highest possible throughput in the back-end for a storage-pool-striped volume out of an extent pool with 8 ranks. 
Over how many device adapter pairs should a technical specialist spread the workload（）

A customer has requested an IBM System Storage DS8700 solution to meet the following requirements： - 20% yearly growth - 29，000 IOPS 
- approximately 50/50 mix of read/write operations - small （4 KB） data transfers 
The storage specialist has created a Disk Magic model in which each port is capable of approximately 2，900 to 3，100 IOPS. 
What is the minimum number of ports that should be configured on the DS8700 to handle the projected workload for the first year（）

The storage specialist sized a DS8800 proposal with eight host adapters in the four-port version. 240 drives of the 146GB-15k rpm type will be installed. The proposal needs to meet a very competitive price. The customer will have only minor capacity growth in the future. 
Which of the following solutions best meets these requirements（）

A financial customer has three data centers that are four kilometers apart. Their SAP application data needs to be kept synchronized within 10 milliseconds. 
Which solution satisfies the customer’s recovery time objective（）

A customer with a small IT budget has one data center. Their main application is a database  
running on an IBM System Storage DS8000. The database has a data change rate of 50% per day. Once a week， they must do a point-in-time backup from the database to tape. The time it takes to run the backup now exceeds the backup window allowed. The customer requests a proposal to reduce database downtime caused by running backups， with nearly zero impact to production volumes. 
In addition to the tape backup， which DS8000 feature should a technical specialist propose（）