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C4040-251 · Question #86

A customer has two Power 570 servers that need to be replaced to accommodate company growth. - The first server runs a transactional workload with high server usage during the day (8am-8pm) - The…

The correct answer is B. (1) new Power 770 with 36 active cores and 384GB active, virtualized with capped LPARs. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

A customer has two Power 570 servers that need to be replaced to accommodate company growth.

  • The first server runs a transactional workload with high server usage

during the day (8am-8pm)

  • The second server runs analytic queries based on the transactional

data during the night (10pm-6am). A technical sizing analysis determined that each server would require (18) POWERS 3.52GHz cores and 160GB RAM, considering the needed growth. What would be the most cost-efficient way to satisfy the customer needs?

Options

  • A(1) new Power S824 with 24 cores and 384GB and DLPAR CPU resources among LPARs
  • B(1) new Power 770 with 36 active cores and 384GB active, virtualized with capped LPARs
  • C(1) new Power S824 with 36 cores and 384GB, virtualized with capped LPARs.
  • D(2) new Power S824 with 20 cores and 192GB RAM each.

How the community answered

(62 responses)
  • A
    6% (4)
  • B
    73% (45)
  • C
    18% (11)
  • D
    3% (2)

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