A customer would like to reduce the amount of backup data being stored on its IBM Storwize V7000 storage.
Which IBM Spectrum Protect feature should the technical specialist propose?
- A . Encryption
- B . Data deduplication
- C . Node replication
- D . Integration with hardware snapshots
A technical specialist is conducting a disk technology briefing to position the IBM FlashSystem V9000 against flash drives in an IBM Storwize V7000. The customer asks, “Why is SSD latency greater than a flash module?”
How should the technical specialist respond to the customer?
- A . Larger capacity SSDs use TLC technology which is slower than MLC
- B . The SSD is using a traditional drive style interface protocol, which can cause a performance overhead.
- C . SSDs use much slower internal SLC flash technology than the IBM FlashSystem, which uses eMLC/ MLC.
- D . The cache memory in the IBM Storwize V7000 is less, which increases latency.
A customer has two IBM Storwize V7000 I/O groups. As part of its business continuity plan, one unit is located within its primary site and the other at a disaster recovery site. The customer synchronously replicates between each IBM Storwize V7000.
What should the customer configure to provide fast non-disruptive failover in case of an outage?
- A . Transparent Cloud Tiering
- B . Stretched cluster
- C . HyperSwap
- D . Global Mirror
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_SAN_Volume_Controller
A customer needs to significantly increase the performance of an existing IBM Storwize V7000 Gen1 based on 15k RPM SAS disks with minimal investment.
What is the most effective way to achieve this?
- A . Add five percent of flash storage to the pool
- B . Acquire an IBM Storwize V7000F
- C . Add compression cards and enable RtC
- D . Purchase Easy Tier
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.google.com/url? sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwjwm4_svJjhAhXIzaQKHW_pA3YQFjAAegQIB RAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibm.com%2Fdeveloperworks%2Fcommunity%2Ffiles%2Fbasic% 2Fanonymous%2Fapi%2Flibrary%2F33795c8c-583c-400a-9702-a99258c444ef%2Fdocument% 2Fd34630de-48af-408d-86fb-5bfbe8d5ea3d%2Fmedia%2FSpectrum_Virtualize_Updates20170119V2% 2520Webinar%25201-19-17.pdf&usg=AOvVaw14pirndj_tB8B97b1UuRcG
A customer is evaluating an IBM Storwize V5010 solution and wants to know what additional software functions are available.
Which additional feature on the IBM Storwize V5010 is a chargeable upgrade?
- A . FlashCopy
- B . Encryption
- C . Data Reduction Pools
- D . Compression
A
Explanation:
Reference: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg248162.pdf
A customer has multiple storage platforms including an EMC VNX and an IBM Storwize V7000.
Which solution should the technical representative recommend to provide alerts and optimize volume placement for the storage platforms?
- A . IBM Virtual Storage Center
- B . IBM Spectrum Connect
- C . IBM Storage Reporter
- D . IBM Spectrum Virtualize
A customer is evaluating an IBM Storwize V7000 for high performance storage for applications and the ability to run storage backups with the least impact on performance.
Which solution meets the customer’s requirements?
- A . Create volumes with volume mirroring between I/O Groups.
- B . Use IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot to create a copy to another storage pool.
- C . Create volumes with volume mirroring to a virtualized external IBM Storwize V5010.
- D . Setup volumes from two IBM Storwize V7000 systems and use Metro Mirror.
B
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/L1VYBZGR
Which resource informs a storage specialist if a TDA is mandatory or optional?
- A . Systems Assurance Product Review Guide
- B . TDA Discussion Guide
- C . IBM Trigger Criteria and Designated Product List
- D . IBM Pre-sale TDA Checklist
A customer wants a self-service catalogue to provision storage in their environment.
Which IBM solution provides for this requirement?
- A . IBM Spectrum Connect
- B . IBM Spectrum Control Advanced
- C . IBM Spectrum Virtualize
- D . IBM Storage Insights Pro
Which IBM website provides the most current support matrix information for the IBM Storwize product line?
- A . IBM Infocenter
- B . IBM System Storage Interoperation Center
- C . IBM Sales Manual
- D . IBM Knowledge Center
B
Explanation:
Reference: https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/ssic/interoperability.wss
Which tool is used to create a hardware and software bill of materials that can be used to order IBM Storwize products from IBM?
- A . IBM Sales Manual
- B . IBM System Planning Tool
- C . Capacity Magic
- D . e-config
A
Explanation:
Reference: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_sm/3/897/ENUS2833-_h03/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en
A customer wants to remotely manage its IBM Storwize V7000.
Which protocol for remote authentication of users is required?
- A . Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP)
- B . Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- C . Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)
- D . Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
B
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ST3FR7_8.1.1/com.ibm.storwize.v7000.811.doc/svc_configremoteauthldap.html
A customer has IBM Spectrum Virtualize at the primary location and IBM Storwize V7000 at the DR location. The customer purchased IBM VSC for both locations and wants to set up Global Mirror.
What has to be done to the IBM Storwize V7000 system to support this functionality?
- A . Put SVC nodes with IBM Spectrum Virtualize in front of the IBM Storwize V7000
- B . Purchase license for Remote Mirror.
- C . Change the system layer to Replication.
- D . Add 10 GbE adapters to the IBM Storwize V7000
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.academia.edu/27750217/IBM_System_Storage_SAN_Volume_Controller_and_Storwize_V7000_Best_Practices_and_Performance _Guidelines
An IBM i customer had performance requirements and is considering flash-based storage using an IBM FlashSystem V9000. The customer plans to move all data to the IBM FlashSystem V9000 with native IBM i attachment.
Which connection protocol is required for this environment?
- A . InfiniBand
- B . iSCSI
- C . 10 Gb FCoE
- D . FC
A customer has just learned about IBM Data Reduction Pools and Data Deduplication for the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software for the IBM Storwize Family.
How are these functions licensed?
- A . Both are billable features
- B . Both are included in the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software for Storwize
- C . Both are licensed by TB and billed independently of each other
- D . Both are licensed by the Storage drawer and can be part of the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software bundling package
The customer is using an IBM SVC to manage storage capacity and plans to add some flash capacity to resolve some application performance concerns caused by month-end reporting operations. These applications have acceptable performance for the rest of the month.
How should the customer automate the use of the flash capacity to manage these monthly workload peaks?
- A . Use IBM Spectrum Control Tiered Storage Optimizer.
- B . Use Volume copy with preferred write.
- C . Use IBM Storage Insights Pro
- D . Use IBM Spectrum Virtualize Easy Tier.
A customer has a single, non-IBM storage system with 100 drives of the same capacity. The storage administrators spend most of their time trying to eliminate hot spots. The customer is considering an IBM Storwize V5020 purchase with approximately the same number of drives.
Which IBM Storwize feature helps resolve these issues?
- A . A single storage pool
- B . Volume migration
- C . HyperSwap
- D . Auto-storage pool balancing
A customer is considering the purchase of an IBM Storwize V5030, but data space is a challenge.
Which tool helps the customer to see how much data space can be saved when compared to the size of the current disk system?
- A . Capacity Magic
- B . Comprestimator
- C . Workload Estimator
- D . Hardware Sizing Calculator
Which tool can be used to quickly estimate the compression ratio for a SVC environment?
- A . Capacity Magic
- B . Disk Magic
- C . Comprestimator
- D . Data Reduction Estimator Tool
C
Explanation:
Reference: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5031.pdf (27)
Which product should be included as part of an IBM Storwize Family solution for a customer who desires application-aware snapshots?
- A . IBM Spectrum Archive
- B . IBM Virtual Storage Center
- C . IBM Spectrum Control Base Edition
- D . IBM Storwize Family Advanced Copy Services
B
Explanation:
Reference: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5121.pdf
A company uses an IBM Storwize V7000 with a single storage pool and plans to expand its storage capacity.
What collects usage statistics for all the volumes in the pool?
- A . Easy Tier
- B . Storage Tier Optimizer
- C . Capacity Magic
- D . Disk Magic
An online shopping website stores orders and large amounts of product data on a multi-tier IBM Storwize storage solution. All data is stored in a mixed pool including NL-SAS, enterprise, and flash storage.
How can Easy Tier assist this organization with its data performance?
- A . Promote data directly form NL-SAS to flash storage.
- B . Promote data from enterprise to flash storage.
- C . Place new data directly on flash storage.
- D . Create image mode volumes on flash and enterprise storage.
A customer is looking for a storage solution that provides FC and SAS host attachment without the need for SAN switches.
Which IBM disk system is appropriate to use?
- A . IBM Storwize V5020
- B . IBM FlashSystem V9000
- C . IBM Storwize V7000
- D . IBM Storwize V5030
Which tool is used to calculate usable storage space for IBM Storwize disk subsystems?
- A . Storage Insights
- B . Disk Magic
- C . Visual Storage Intelligence
- D . Capacity Magic
What must be configured and installed to use VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) with IBM Storwize solutions?
- A . IBM Spectrum Virtualize
- B . IBM Spectrum Access
- C . IBM Spectrum Connect
- D . IBM Spectrum Control Standard Edition
A
Explanation:
Reference: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248328.html?Open
What is the minimum number of paths that an IBM Storwize node canister should have for each host according to best practices?
- A . 8
- B . 1
- C . 2
- D . 4
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=N3rJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA240&lpg=PA240&dq=at+least+4+paths+paths+IBM+Storwize+node+canister+should+have+for+each+host+according+to+best+practices&source=bl&ots=iZob3xd_Nr&sig=ACfU3U0QRXbJWxs1xv1c_PZvEzgB3mTmwA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjr_bKC1pjhAhXEjKQKHd3CAlIQ6AEwAnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=at%20least%204%20paths%20paths%20IBM%20Storwize%20node%20canister%20should%20have%20for%20each%20host%20according%20to%20best%20practices&f=false
A customer wants to do application testing in the disaster recovery site located ten kilometers away over fiber and wants to use IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot to create the application-aware clones of the database volumes.
Which two additional features are needed to create these clones? (Choose two.)
- A . Full System Replication Manager
- B . IBM Copy Services Manager
- C . Volume mirroring
- D . FlashCopy
- E . Remote Mirror
DE
Explanation:
Reference: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4873.pdf
A customer has outgrown its IBM System Storage DS3524 and asks for a recommendation on an IBM storage system that can virtualize and continue to use the existing storage system.
Which solution should the technical specialist recommend as the lowest entry cost?
- A . IBM Storwize V7000
- B . IBM Storwize V5020
- C . IBM Storwize V5030
- D . IBM Storwize V5010
An IBM Storwize V7000 prospect has a rapidly growing SQL database and is interested in methods to maximize storage capacity efficiency.
Which feature addresses this concern?
- A . Unmap
- B . Easy Tier
- C . Transparent cloud tiering
- D . Data Reduction Pool
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/L1VYBZGR
An IBM Storwize V7000 customer plans on using the cloud as a target for its encrypted data snapshots. The customer wants to use snapshots as a source for restoring to multiple sites around the world with centralized, automated key management.
How should the technical specialist advise the customer?
- A . The customer should purchase IBM Spectrum Control Advanced.
- B . The customer should purchase IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management.
- C . The customer should purchase IBM SKLM.
- D . The customer should use the encryption license that comes with centralized key management.
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/ibm-security-key-lifecycle-manager