A community hospital has expressed interest in consolidating their legacy Intel servers onto virtual machines with VMWare ESX. They will migrate most of their 2-way processor servers to two x366’s and have confirmed they would like to use a SAN. The IBM specialist visited their datacenter to verify their environment and met with the Systems Admin. Which of the following questions is most critical to verify the solution can be implemented?()
A customer is consolidating their ten rack mount Windows servers into a VMware environment with four servers. The existing servers all have internal disk. The total amount of useable capacity is 5TB which is expected to increase to 10TB over the life of this asset. The customer will want to use the advanced features of VMware like VMotion.The customer is concerned about cost. Which of the following meets the customers needs? ()
The customer is consolidating their ten rack mount Windows servers into a VMware environment with four servers. The existing servers all have internal disk. The total amount of useable capacity is 5TB which is expected to increase to 10TB over the life of this asset. The customer will want to use the advanced features of VMware like VMotion. The customer is concerned about cost. Which of the following meets the customers needs?()
A company is consolidating four IBM System x servers. Each server has 500 GB of disk storage and each will grow to 2 TB within the next year. Additionally, the company will implement a SAN over the next year and must include connectivity and storage for its existing IBM System z and two IBM System p servers. Which storage solution meets the company requirements()
A customer is consolidating seven IBM i partitions onto a POWER7 system, using VIO Server to virtualize resources.Which of the following PowerVM editions is appropriate for this customer?()
A company has acquired another company and is consolidating data centers. During the consolidation, half of the users of a business-critical application lost access. The users who maintained access experienced slow performance. What is the first action the SAN/storage administrator should take to determine the source of the problem()
A large customer is consolidating their pSeries systems onto a p5 590. They will have a requirement for a single device (disk, lun) to have multiple paths through different adapters in a single LPAR. The primary applications were written for AIX 5.2. Which of the following would be the recommended solution to satisfy this requirement?()
You are consolidating your data center by using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V servers. You are performing virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversions from Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 and VMware ESX environments by using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manage (VMM) 2008 R2. You need to place the virtual machines (VMs) to fully utilize the Windows Server 2008 R2 host servers. What should you do?()
A customer is considering consolidating their file servers by moving them into a virtual environment using VMWare ESX Server running on an x445 system. The ratio of consolidation is expected to be about 15:1. Which TWO of the Total Cost of Ownership factors are the key benefits of this solution?()
A company has acquired another company and is consolidating data centers. During the consolidation, half of the users of a business critical application lost access. The users who maintained access experienced slow performance. What is the first action the SAN/storage administrator should take to determine the source of the problem()