A System x sales specialist is creating a proposal for a Unix-installed account. The customer is looking to migrate several business-critical applications onto Linux running on Intel. Which of the following should help IBM meet the customer’s requirements?()
A storage specialist discovers that a new customer likes the technical aspects of the IBM SystemStorage DS8000 and they plan to recommend it to their vice president. Which of the following isthe next logical step for the storage specialist?()
You work as an IT support specialist. Your job responsibilities include managing server storage. You aredesigning storage for a new application server. The application makes heavy use of temporary storage, andyou want to allocate three 20-GB disk drives to that storage. If excellent read and write performance is ahigh priority,and you also want to use as much available space as possible,which of the following volumetypes should you create?()
The pSeries technical specialist is designing a two LPAR p5-570 with eight total processors. The system is a test system to run AIX 5.2. The customer has stated a preference for internal disks for the boot devices. The customer has said they may later need to run three or four LPARs without increasing the number of processors. What should the pSeries technical specialist tell the customer about the ability of the p5-570 to meet their requirements?()
A specialist is monitoring performance on a server. The data is on another partition within the same array as the OS. The following information is available: (1)The average record written to disk is 16KB (2)The I/O block size is 2KB (3)The stripe size on the RAID array is 16KB Which of the following will improve performance without rebuilding the operating system?()
A storage specialist wants to create a fixed-block volume in the extent pool P10, in rank group 0. Which of these volumes cannot be created()
The pSeries technical specialist has been asked to verify a solution that has six servers connecting to a 7316-TF3 rack-mounted flat-panel console. Each server will connect into the 4202 Keyboard/Video/Mouse (LCM Switch). What is the minimum number of KVM Conversion Cable Options (FC 4268) required to complete this installation?()
A technical specialist has a requirement to implement a 4-way POWER5 server with a small Web server partition and a high performance database server partition. The Web server provides a client front-end to the database server. The most important concerns are speed of communication between the Web server and the database and I/O speed of the database. Which of the following virtualization features would be most appropriate?()
Companycom tells the technical sales specialist that recent announcements state that virtual lan in the datacenter is the best option. The customer wants to use interpartition communication to save on adapters and increase performance. The systems are going to have shared and dedicated processor partitions. Some of the partitions will be running AIX 5.2 and some will be running AIX 5.3. The second p5 590 will be running a mixture of AIX 5.3 and Linux partitions with 2.6 kernel. What limitations of vlan/interpartition communication should be discussed with this customer?()
The storage specialist needs to prepare an IBM System Storage DS8800 proposal including 64 host ports. The offer needs to meet the lowest possible price. What is the minimum number of I/O Enclosure Pairs PCI-E for this configuration()