A pSeries technical specialist has just returned from an internal course for implementing Micro-Partitioning on the POWER5 range of servers. There were many handouts from the course. To ensure the rapid transfer of the newly acquired skill, what should the technical specialist do?()
A Sales Specialist receives an email from a customer, requesting information on IBM’s best Server Consolidation solution. How should the Sales Specialist proceed? ()
A pSeries technical specialist has completed a server consolidation study of a customer’s environment. An LPAR worksheet was produced, which details the resource (CPU, memory, disk, adapters) requirements for each OS image (partition) based on workload. What is the most appropriate next step?()
The pSeries technical specialist of a Premier Tier 1 Business Partner has been working on a design for a four LPAR p5-570 Express solution. The specialist has received conflicting information regarding sharing the IDE DVD-RAM drive between different LPARs. Who should the technical specialist contact to gain a definitive answer?()
A pSeries technical specialist has been asked to provide a server consolidation solution to replace several AIX servers running typical commercial database workloads. Benchmarks for SPECint, SPECfp, SPECjbb as well as estimates of ROLTP and rPerf are available for all the current systems. Which of the following could be used as a first approximation of total performance required for one large server?()
What process should the storage specialist recommend to investigate IBM support for nonstandardconfigurations?()
The Business Partner technical specialist is planning the space requirements for a new IBM DS8000. The service clearance requirements refer to the area required to ()
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()
The pSeries technical specialist has a number of tasks to perform and does not have time to do them all. It is a week before the end of quarter and the account executives all state that their individual requests are the highest priority. How should the following task list be prioritized? () 1. Return a call from customer seeking compatibility information. 2. Configure three p690 servers to be ordered in two weeks. 3. Prepare a POWER5 presentation to give to a customer in two weeks. 4. Configure three p690 servers to be ordered this quarter.
A storage specialist is talking to a company about ProtecTIER. The customer wants to know howthe TS7650 Appliance can help reduce storage costs. Which of the following provides patentedpattern recognition designed to reduce storage needs by up to a factor of 25, and radicallyreducing costs?()