Which offering provides file sharing and transparent cloud tiering?
A. IBM Spectrum Virtualize
B. IBM Spectrum Accelerate
C. IBM Cloud Object Storage
D. IBM Spectrum Scale
Which concern should a sales specialist emphasize when proposing a new high availability storage replication solution between two sites?
A. Number of hosts attached
B. Server speed of models
C. WAN connection
D. Host attachment protocol of the storage devices
A customer has an existing XIV storage environment that is running out of capacity. The customer wants to add a flash storage system that utilize the same grid architecture design and device drivers.
Which storage solution should be considered?
A. IBM DS8886
B. IBM Spectrum Virtualize
C. IBM FlashSystem 900
D. IBM FlashSystem A9000R
A company has added a new IBM Storwize V7000 to its existing multi-vendor environment.
Which software is needed to allow the IBM Storwize V7000 to manage the different storage devices?
A. Security Key Life Cycle Manager
B. External Virtualization
C. Global Mirror
D. Real-time Compression
What helps a customer reduce training for a small staff when managing multiple IBM products?
A. Redbooks
B. Common GUI
C. Technical Advisor Program
D. Directed Maintenance Package
An IBM customer wants to implement a block-only, software-defined storage (SDS) solution based on grid storage design with qualified commodity hardware.
Which solution allows the customer to do this?
A. IBM Spectrum Accelerate
B. IBM Spectrum Control
C. IBM Spectrum Virtualize
D. IBM Spectrum Scale
A current IBM Spectrum Scale customer is concerned with the financial impact of a new regulatory requirement that drastically increases the volume and duration of data retention in the existing implementation.
Which additional IBM solution should the sales specialist discuss to pair with IBM Spectrum Scale?
A. IBM Spectrum Archive
B. IBM Spectrum NAS
C. IBM Spectrum Control
D. IBM InfoSphere DataStage
Which function does a pre-install Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) perform?
A. Review the customer pricing of the IBM storage solution.
B. Provide a roadmap of questions to use when reviewing a proposal for IBM storage products prior to ordering.
C. Use a checklist of questions to assess the site readiness for installation.
D. Review the technical configuration before ordering the storage solution.
A customer is deploying a new data center and requires a storage solution that provides storage virtualization, management, and archive-to-tape at the lowest cost per TB.
Which solution should the sales specialist recommend?
A. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management
B. IBM Spectrum Virtualize
C. IBM Spectrum Suite
D. IBM Spectrum Archive
A customer wants to have a disk storage system that provides recommendations on capacity growth that will optimize performance.
Which solution should the sales specialist recommend?
A. ESS with intra-tier rebalancing
B. IBM TS4500 with Disk Optimizer
C. IBM DCS3860 with Capacity Magic
D. IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM Storage Insights Pro
