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C4040-123 · Question #6

The IT director of a data center has servers from Dell, IBM and Sun: - The Dell servers run Linux - The Sun Servers run Solaris - The IBM servers run AIX. Consolidation to fewer platforms is being…

The correct answer is A. Linux and AIX run natively on Power Systems servers. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

The IT director of a data center has servers from Dell, IBM and Sun:

  • The Dell servers run Linux
  • The Sun Servers run Solaris
  • The IBM servers run AIX.

Consolidation to fewer platforms is being considered. What competitive advantage does the purchase of a new POWER7 server have over a new Sun T5 server for this customer environment?

Options

  • ALinux and AIX run natively on Power Systems servers.
  • BCapacity on Demand resources can be activated in increments of one tenth of a processor
  • CWPAR5 can be implemented on an AIX system to support both of the UNIX and Linux
  • DA POWFR7 system supports twice the number simultaneous threads per clock cycle of Dell

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