IBM Midrange Storage Technical Support V4 Sample Questions:

1. A customer provides the information shown in the exhibit for the company's primary database environment. Solution requirements include meeting of exceeding the current I/O rate of the existing environment.
System name Name Max IOPS Avg IOPS Min IOPS Max BW (MBps) Avg BW (MBps) Min BW (MBps) Max Latency (ms) Avg Latency (ms) pldenxivg3 denoubivs_arch1 1101 20 0 274 5 0 3 2 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_arch2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bin1 322 1 0 1 0 0 32 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bin2 184 0 0 1 0 0 21 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bkup1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bkup2 25 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bkup3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data1 997 39 0 128 3 0 28 2 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data2 997 38 0 133 3 0 31 2 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data3 1005 43 0 127 3 0 23 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data4 2217 38 0 175 3 0 19 2 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data5 1194 37 0 109 2 0 32 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data6 1118 30 0 70 2 0 23 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data7 1111 29 0 70 2 0 21 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data8 2443 24 0 156 1 0 10 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data9 1710 8 0 108 0 0 12 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_log1 2107 49 0 46 1 0 2 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_log2 2174 44 0 43 1 0 2 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_NJP_bin 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_NJP_data 1452 9 0 93 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_NJP_log 65 14 0 3 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_os1 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_os2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_pg1 12 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_pg2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_arch1 501 5 0 122 1 0 3 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_arch2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_back1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_back2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_back3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bin1 209 2 0 6 0 0 16 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bin2 283 0 0 17 0 0 18 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_bin3 176 1 0 8 0 0 18 1 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data1 3128 116 0 201 5 0 17 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data2 1117 65 0 71 2 0 16 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data3 1129 69 0 71 2 0 16 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data4 1136 63 0 72 2 0 16 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data5 1147 65 0 72 2 0 16 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data6 3470 60 0 223 2 0 36 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_data7 2389 51 0 152 2 0 20 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_log1 204 12 0 13 0 0 2 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_log2 279 11 0 12 0 0 3 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_os1 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_os2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pldenxivg3 denoubivs_pg1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total= 35458 943 0 2580 44
Average= 788 21 0 57 1 0 10
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What should the minimum I/O rate be for the new solution?

A) 21 I/Os per second
B) 35458 I/Os per second
C) 788 I/Os per second
D) 943 I/Os per second

2. An IBM customer is considering more spinning disk for a new business analytics application. The IBM specialist is requested to provide information as to challenges that the customer might face and what other customers in the marketplace have implemented.
Which factor should provide best performance?

A) Increase the number of disks in storage array
B) Implementation of solid state disk drives
C) Move of most accessed files to its own disk
D) Implementation of flash technology

3. A customer currently has a NettApp solution today and is unhappy with the performance of the system. The customer is very happy with the SnapManager software from NetApp, which is one of the challenges for moving the customer to a new IBM storage product.
What additional product should the technical specialist show the customer to help ease its concern about utilizing snapshots?

A) TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication
B) Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
C) IBM Spectrum Protect
D) Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

4. A customer wants to estimate the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a storage project.
Which software tool should be used?

A) System Storage Interoperation Center Tool
B) ISAT Tool
C) Knowledge Center
D) Systems Consolidation Evaluation Tool

5. A customer is looking for a cost-effective, all-flash solution.
Which benefit would the FlashSystem 840 offer this customer?

A) Increased data availability
B) Improved storage efficiency
C) Enhanced capacity utilization
D) Extended wear life

Solutions: