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C4070-604 · Question #31
A customer will be upgrading their z10 EC to a z196 and would like to position the z196 to take advantage of new PCIe infrastructure for future support. Currently they have two I/O cages. The…
The correct answer is B. The drawer can be added later when the customer is ready to order the new PCIe cards. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
A customer will be upgrading their z10 EC to a z196 and would like to position the z196 to take advantage of new PCIe infrastructure for future support. Currently they have two I/O cages. The customer cannot take a future outage to add the new drawer. Which of the following will position the server for future use of a PCIe I/O drawer?
Options
- AJust perform the upgrade, the existing cards will carry forward into the new PCIe drawer.
- BThe drawer can be added later when the customer is ready to order the new PCIe cards.
- COrder the new PCIe OSA-Express4S 1000BaseT and/or FICON Express4S cards now which will
- DThe new PCIe drawer cannot be installed concurrently so order the new PCIe OSA-Express4S
How the community answered
(20 responses)- A5% (1)
- B75% (15)
- C5% (1)
- D15% (3)
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