C4090-451 Exam Questions

An existing N series customer is running SnapMirror and SnapVault between production and their Disaster Recovery site. Production Sites A and B replicate to DR Site C using SnapMir...

A customer is looking to virtualize a storage system not listed on the interoperability matrix for the Storwize V7000. What should the IBM technical specialist do on behalf of the...

What type of data protection is used by the FlashSystem 810?

A customer is implementing new Disaster Recovery policies in their data centers located 1000 km apart. A very important requirement is to be able to configure RPO in a range from 5...

Which of the following IBM products compares to EMC FAST technology?

A customer is preparing a fibre channel attached Windows host system for Storwize V7000 Image mode migration. Which of the following sets of items need to be evaluated and/or upgra...

The SAN Volume Controller can provide access to existing LUN data, block for block, on a multitude of storage arrays through which MDisk mode?

What tool would be used to ensure the proper number of disk drives and enclosures needed in a N6240 configuration for a 30 TB solution?

On the TS3310 what does the capacity expansion feature provide?

A customer is considering purchasing a PureFlex System and is concerned about compatibility with its existing Windows environment. Cisco SAN and the integrated storage system. Whic...

What product characteristic of the IBM FlashSystem minimizes I/O bottlenecks?

What IBM Partnerworld website can a Business Partner access to select and use tools of a modeling nature (eg., Disk Magic, ProtecTIER. TCOnow! for Disk) for IBM storage solutions?

A customer has a Storwize V7000 with internal disk drives and a virtualized DS5300 controller unit with two disk expansions. The customer is expanding their video surveillance arch...

Considering ProtecTIER and the HyperFactor algorithm for factoring the uncompressed data which data type would benefit most from data deduplication?

Where must the Comprestimator utility be installed and run from to sample stored data?

A customer has a requirement to begin archiving data for a lifecycle management initiative The customer needs to use software for archiving and retrieving the data, and a magnetic...

What is thin provisioning?

A customer has a Storwize V7000 and they are interested in deploying an expert integrated solution in second data center. They intend to replicate to the second data center and vir...

Which tool can be used to calculate the available tape capacity in a TS3310 configuration?

What is a Consistency Group?

To prevent data loss, what should be a part of a migration plan prior to starting the migration of production data'?

A customer has a need to support an operating system on an IBM storage platform that is not currently on the official supported list. What should the IBM technical specialist do on...

A customer is interested in purchasing a VTL gateway for their VMware environment. They have stated that they want to use their existing disk infrastructure to provide capacity for...

A customer has purchased some new LTO-5 drives to replace their existing LTO-4 drive technology. They wish to re-use some legacy LTO-3 and more recent LTO-4 tape cartridges. Which...

A customer wants to utilize Real-time Compression (RtC) in their environment and needs to determine the impact directly in the Storwize V7000 resoures. What would the technical spe...

The technical specialist is reviewing a Storwize V3700 proposal with a customer and he/she asks about the Storwize V3700 support. The customer is inquiring about "how-to" support a...

Which product is needed to be able to utilize Active Cloud Engine to Tape on the Storwize V7000 Unified?

A customer wants to have two Storwize V7000 systems as a clustered system. What is the maximum number of Fibre Channel ports on each control enclosure needed to build the cluster?

A customer is asking for 18 TB of usable capacity for a new Oracle database application that has a transaction rate in excess of 50,000 transactions per second. Their data center h...

A customer is purchasing a DCS3700 and likes the idea of thin provisioning the volumes. Which statement is true regarding a DCS3700 thin provisioning implementation?

A customer wants to add a fully populated BladeCenter chassis to their existing Storwize V7000.They have experienced performance issues in the past due to congestion and high utili...

Due to regulatory requirements in the insurance industry the customer needs to backup using WORM. Which product can accomplish this task?

A customer has a long standing environment on an AIX platform for an application which has 300 volumes assigned to it. The reason given by the customer for such a high number of vo...

What needs to be considered when evaluating an existing SAN environment to be virtualized with a new Storwize V7000?

Which of the following is a feature of LTFS (Linear Tape File System)?

A customer has a VMware cluster composed of three X3650 M3 servers connected to a DS3200 disk array via SAS. The DS3200 has been declared "end of life" and needs to be replaced. Th...

A customer's data center has a Storwize V3700 and a Storwize V7000. Recently they added a DS3E524, The customer wants to implement a new manufacturing software solution on the DS35...

A customer wants to consolidate multi-vendor servers and pool storage platforms. Which of the following is a key differentiator of the PureFlex foundation?

A customer is replacing remote office BladeCenter S deployments. None of the remote offices has even a "data closet". The customer likes the PureFlex solution but is concerned abou...

A customer has a mature Oracle database solution built on older 146 GB 15k disk drives totaling 14 TB but the actual database is only 3 TB. They want to refresh the existing databa...

During a requirements gathering exercise, a customer explains that their environment is synchronously replicated between two sites over a dedicated 1Gb link using standard Ethernet...

A customer has an aging EMC CX4-120 array nearing end of support life for their Oracle environment. The Oracle team would like to take advantage of snapshot technology to improve t...

A customer informs the technical specialist that they have thin provisioned their N series storage environment which has 100 TB of usable disk space, and they have achieved a 50% u...

A customer has been reading about storage virtualization in the industry press. They want to learn about implementing a Storwize V7000 in front of their EMC DMX arrays. In a Window...

When used in active/active configurations, what product provides the highest data availability levels in N series within the storage subsystem?

The IBM web site where software for all IBM storage solutions can be downloaded is called:

A customer has an existing IBM DS4700 system that is due to be refreshed. In addition to an additional 100 TB of new disk they want to be able to utilize the existing 50 TB of disk...

What is the maximum size LUN from an external disk array that the Storwize V7000 will recognize?

A customer wants to be able to use Active Cloud to backup their files to tape. Which option can be used to accomplish this task?

A customer is executing a technology refresh Dm their System i server and is going to move from internal to external storage as well as upgrading to the latest version of the IBM i...