A customer purchased a new IBM xSeries x445. They already have a non-IBM industry standard rack with 14U of open space that is being considered to house the new server. The rack houses an existing UPS unit for the entire rack. Which of the following questions is most important to ensure that the power in the datacenter environment is ready for the initial install?()
A customer has determined they want to install an IBM x445 system in their company. They will be running a large database on the system. In order to determine how many CPUs will be needed to attain the optimum cost-effective solution, which TWO of the following questions should be asked?()
A customer has an xSeries x445 server attached to a DS4500 storage server containing two EXP710 disk expansion drawers with 14 disks in each. The x445 is to be used for a video streaming application. The customer wants to make the most cost-effective use of the disk capacity while retaining fault tolerance. Which of the following solutions will satisfy the requirements?()
A customer wants to run VMWare ESX on an x445 with a large number of virtual machines running Windows 2003 Server as a Disaster Recovery (DR) Site for the production environment. Which of the following questions would most impact the memory configuration?()
A 4-way x445 server with 2GB of memory running Windows 2003 Server with Exchange 2003 is performing poorly. Users are complaining of slow response times when accessing their email. Which subsystem should be checked first as a potential bottleneck?()
A customer wants to integrate an x445 running SuSE with their existing EMC storage infrastructure. Which of the following tasks needs to be done to ensure that the solution will work properly?()
An x445 with two 3.0GHz DP processors and 2GB of RAM is running a processor-intensive floating-point geological application that calculates pressures in the earth’s crust. It takes a long time for each calculation, and the director of computing wants the calculations to take less time. Memory addressed by the application may also be a bottle neck. Which of the following will most improve the ability to run the calculations in less time?()