A customer is considering the purchase of three IBM POWER8 Scale-out systems to run their AIX and IBM i applications. Their main concern is application uptime. What feature of the POWER8 Scale-out…

The correct answer is B. Live Partition Mobility. Demands for system uptime have consistently risen over the years, and while technology features such as high availability have largely minimized unplanned downtime, servers still have to come down for routine maintenance to keep operations running smoothly. This is one of the…

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A customer is considering the purchase of three IBM POWER8 Scale-out systems to run their AIX and IBM i applications. Their main concern is application uptime. What feature of the POWER8 Scale-out systems should the IBM reseller discuss?

Options

ARAS features eliminate disk and memory failures
BLive Partition Mobility
CPowerVC
DHot swap memory and cores

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(39 responses)

A
13% (5)
B
79% (31)
C
3% (1)
D
5% (2)

Explanation

Demands for system uptime have consistently risen over the years, and while technology features such as high availability have largely minimized unplanned downtime, servers still have to come down for routine maintenance to keep operations running smoothly. This is one of the key benefits of Live Partition Mobility for IBM i, which allows IT to migrate a partition from one physical machine to another.

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#Scale-out systems#Live Partition Mobility#application uptime#AIX IBM i

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