C1000-176 · Question #22
An enterprise needs to deploy a compute solution for a custom AIX image. Which IBM Cloud IaaS offering could be used?
The correct answer is D. Power Systems Virtual Servers. Power Systems Virtual Servers is the only IBM Cloud IaaS offering built on IBM POWER hardware, which is the only architecture that supports AIX - IBM's proprietary Unix OS is tightly coupled to POWER processors and cannot run on x86 infrastructure. Bare metal servers on VPC (A)…
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An enterprise needs to deploy a compute solution for a custom AIX image. Which IBM Cloud IaaS offering could be used?
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- ABare metal servers on VPC
- BVirtual servers on VPC with custom images
- CVMware vSphere Server (VSS)
- DPower Systems Virtual Servers
How the community answered
(31 responses)- A10% (3)
- B6% (2)
- C3% (1)
- D81% (25)
Explanation
Power Systems Virtual Servers is the only IBM Cloud IaaS offering built on IBM POWER hardware, which is the only architecture that supports AIX - IBM's proprietary Unix OS is tightly coupled to POWER processors and cannot run on x86 infrastructure. Bare metal servers on VPC (A) and Virtual servers on VPC with custom images (B) both run on x86/Intel architecture; while VPC virtual servers do support custom images, those images must be Linux or Windows-based, not AIX. VMware vSphere Server (C) is also x86-based and virtualizes standard operating systems, making it incompatible with AIX regardless of the image.
Memory tip: AIX = Architecture matters - think AIX runs on POWER, so choose the offering with "Power" in the name.
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