NEW QUESTION NO: 30
Which non-concurrent capacity upgrade is possible for a customer with IBM FlashSystem 900?
A. Systems purchased with eight 4 TB flash modules can be expanded to twelve 2 TB Flash modules.
B. Systems purchased with eight 2 TB flash modules can be expanded to twelve 2 TB Flash modules.
C. Systems purchased with eight 2 TB flash modules can be expanded to twelve 4 TB Flash modules.
D. Systems purchased with eight 2 TB flash modules can be expanded to twelve 4 TB Flash modules. 
Answer: B

NEW QUESTION NO: 31
Which type of business continuity does a customer utilize who makes nighty flash copies at the primary data center?
A. Test and development
B. Disaster Recovery
C. Continuous data protection
D. Backup Strategy
Answer: D

NEW QUESTION NO: 32
What is the most common initial benefit to data center economics of implementing an IBM FlashSystem?
A. More latency
B. More drive contention
C. More performance
D. More power consumption
Answer: C

NEW QUESTION NO: 33
A customer is having difficulty with managing the heterogeneous storage infrastructure and tracking the performance of SAN-attached devices.
Which IBM product addresses the customer's immediate concern?
A. IBM Spectrum Scale
B. IBM Spectrum Virtualize
C. IBM Spectrum Accelerate
D. IBM Spectrum Control
Answer: D
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://www.abcservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IBM-Spectrum-Control-data- sheet.pdf

NEW QUESTION NO: 34
A customer has requested an IBM Spectrum Virtualize solution with capability to make it easy for users to create relevant and meaningful custom reports.
What should the solution architect propose to satisfy this requirement?
A. IBM Spectrum Control Advanced
B. Storage Tier Optimizer
C. Native IBM Spectrum Virtualize performance tool(s)
D. IBM Spectrum Control Base
Answer: A

NEW QUESTION NO: 35
A customer is looking at IBM Software Defined Storage as a means to improve storage efficiency within a data center.
Which service does IBM Software Defined Storage Data Plane offer?
A. Data backup and recovery
B. Cloud connection
C. Storage virtualization
D. Inter-data center sharing
Answer: D
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp030.nsf/vLookupPDFs/Software%20Defined%
20and%20Elastic%20Storage/$file/Software%20Defined%20and%20Elastic%20Storage.pdf (p.5)

NEW QUESTION NO: 36
Which IBM Storage System can be directly attached to an IBM i partition on a POWER System?
A. IBM TS7620
B. IBM Spectrum Scale
C. IBM DS8886
D. IBM XIV
Answer: C
Explanation/Reference:

NEW QUESTION NO: 37
Which IBM storage platform offers scalable grid architecture, sophisticated data distribution, unparalleled disk rebuild times, zero tuning, and simple, easy-to-use interface for Analytics?
A. IBM Spectrum Archive
B. IBM XIV
C. IBM Spectrum Virtualize
D. IBM DS8880
Answer: B
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips1238.html?Open

NEW QUESTION NO: 38
Which IBM product should you propose to a customer with multiple PB of unstructured data that require a single name space?
A. DS8880
B. XIV Hyper Scale
C. IBM Spectrum Scale
D. FlashSystem V9000
Answer: C

NEW QUESTION NO: 39
What is the minimum number of FCP/FICON host adapter cards required for redundancy in an IBM System Storage DS8880?
A. 6 cards
B. 8 cards
C. 4 cards
D. 2 cards
Answer: C

NEW QUESTION NO: 40
A customer is having issues with enterprise-wide data and device management. The sales person plans to propose IBM Spectrum Control to enable a single-point of management of the underlying hardware.
Which IBM solution provides these core capabilities?
A. IBM Storwize V3700
B. IBM XIV
C. IBM Virtual Storage Center
D. IBM DS8880
Answer: C
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/spectrum/control/

NEW QUESTION NO: 41
How many SSD's can be added to a minimum IBM XIV configuration?
A. 7
B. 6
C. 5
D. 4
Answer: C

NEW QUESTION NO: 42
Which feature in the IBM XIV allows data on a set of related volumes to enable correctly ordered writes?
A. Coupling Group
B. Mirror Group
C. Volume Group
D. Consistency Group
Answer: D
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247759.pdf (p.75)

NEW QUESTION NO: 43
A customer wants to order a full rack IBM XIV system. The customer is on the 5th floor of the building and the elevator cannot handle the weight of a fully loaded XIV.
What is needed to deliver the system to the customer?
A. Place the order with height and weight reduction delivery.
B. Place the order with only 6 modules then perform a MES upgrade.
C. Place the order with just 2 TB drives.
D. Place the order, then have the installer take apart and reassemble the XIV.
Answer: A
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STJTAG/com.ibm.help.xiv.doc/ xiv_plna14deliveryfeature.html

NEW QUESTION NO: 44
Which option in the IBM TS7650G ProtecTIER Gateway is a supported host attachment configuration?
A. Open System Technology (OST)
B. IBM Spectrum Archive
C. Quick File System (QFS)
D. Virtual Tape Library Emulation with SAS Interface
Answer: D

NEW QUESTION NO: 45
A customer is looking to leverage a multi-tier approach for its storage. The customer is concerned about the cost of high performance drives and correct sizing for future disk purchases. The IBM sales specialist suggests an IBM DS8880 and Easy Tier to handle the different tiers.
Which tool should be used to help the customer purchase the best tier of disk for future disk purchases on the IBM DS8880?
A. STAT tool
B. Easy Tier Heat Map Transfer
C. TCOnow! Tool
D. Capacity Magic
Answer: A

NEW QUESTION NO: 46
A customer has an existing mainframe environment with an IBM DS8880 attached. This frame is only partially populated. The customer is attaching existing IBM POWER servers that require a three-tier storage solution including SSDs. Electrical power is not readily available. Price is also a key criteria in making the decision.
Which addition to the existing system should be proposed to this customer?
A. Add IBM SAN Volume Controller along with IBM Storwize V7000
B. Add disks to the DS8880
C. Add a DCS3680 in a new rack
D. Add IBM Spectrum Scale in front of the DS8880 along with additional disks in the DS8880
Answer: D

NEW QUESTION NO: 47
A customer needs an enterprise storage system with grid architecture to make storage management easier.
Which storage system meets the customer's requirements?
A. IBM XIV System
B. IBM FlashSystem 900
C. IBM Strowize V3700
D. IBM DS8880
Answer: A
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips1238.html?Open

NEW QUESTION NO: 48
A customer has asked about the RAID architecture of IBM Spectrum Scale. Which two advantages of declustered RAID should be highlighted to the customer? (Choose two.)
A. Dedicated spare drives
B. Uses a subset of drives in the declustered RAID to rebuild data
C. Faster rebuild of data on failed drives.
D. Load on drives is increased during array rebuild
E. More predictable performance
Answer: B,C

NEW QUESTION NO: 49
A customer has existing fiber attached storage that has reached the end of life. The customer wants a scalable solution that is easy to manage and integrates with VMware. The customer has a preference for an IBM XIV based solution, but is concerned about migrating the existing data and boots volumes.
Which explanation best addresses the customer's concern?
A. IBM XIV has a build in capability to copy the existing data.
B. IBM XIV has both a vCenter and VAAI plug-in.
C. Thin provisioning on the IBM XIV will reduce the necessary capacity of the XIV.
D. An IBM Spectrum Control must be included
Answer: B

NEW QUESTION NO: 50
Which feature of IBM XIV is important to a customer with a lights-out, remotely located data center and that is very concerned about data integrity?
A. Advanced System Placement program
B. Proactive self-healing
C. Flash caching
D. Data-at-rest encryption
Answer: B
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