A customer has storage systems from HP and EMC connected on its Fibre Channel network. They are for separate departments and the customer is considering a new system for the financialdepartment and a consolidation of the existing storage systems.
Which feature should the storage specialist emphasize on IBM Storwize V7000 to address this concern?

• A. Thin provisioning
• B. Easy Tier
• C. Real-time Compression
• D. External virtualization

A client wants to enlarge its existing IT infrastructure storage capacity by also reusing existing storage. The client is looking at the IBM Storwize family.
Which tool should be used to assist with justifying the acquisition?

• A. IBM Storwize RAS Business Advantage Calculator
• B. IBM Business Value Accelerators
• C. TCOnow!
• D. ROInow!

A customer has an existing database maintained on an IBM Storwize maintained on an IBM Storwize V7000 storage system. New PRO objectives with multiple sample points are being requested. You recommend the IBM Storwize V7000 as it supports "FlashCopy Consistency Groups" which will potentially resolve this new business requirement.
How should you describe this feature to the customer?

• A. It preserves point-in-time datawrite order across multiple volumes for applications that include related data which spans multiple volumes.
• B. It has synchronous remote copy technique that ensures that writes are committed at both the master and auxiliary volumes before write completion is acknowledged to the host.
• C. It performs the itracluster copying of a volume, in which both volumes belong to the same system and I/O Group within the system.
• D. It has an asynchronous remote copy technique with change volumes replicates point-intime images on a cycling period. The default is 3000 seconds.

A customer has a FlashSystem 840 installed with 12 TB of capacity (8 x 2 TB flash modules, RAID 5). The storage solution was purchased for a project that has now been completed and the customers plan is to install additional flash modules and deploy this device to a new project and has asked for you recommendations.
Which advice should be given to this customer?

• A. TheFlashSystem 840 can support mixed capacity flash modules and additional new capacity is automatically rebalanced and available on the system.
• B. TheFlashSystem 840 supports only same capacity flash modules and the upgrade is data destructive.
• C. TheFlashSystem 840 can support mixed capacity flash modules and the upgrade is data destructive.
• D. TheFlashSystem 840 is factory sealed and cannot be upgraded.

A customer has a storage system with a number of databases and has a business requirement to provide development with a sample of real data for testing. The customer is also concerned with cost.
Which solution is appropriate for this customer?

• A. IBM Storwize V7000 with Real-time Compression and virtualization
• B. IBM Spectrum Protect
• C. IBM Storwize V5000 with Real-time Compression and virtualization
• D. IBM Spectrum Scale