C1000-021 Online Practice Questions and Answers

The customer is using an IBM SVC to manage storage capacity and plans to add some flash capacity to resolve some application performance concerns caused by month-end reporting operations. These

applications have acceptable performance for the rest of the month.

How should the customer automate the use of the flash capacity to manage these monthly workload

peaks?

A. Use IBM Spectrum Control Tiered Storage Optimizer.

B. Use Volume copy with preferred write.

C. Use IBM Storage Insights Pro

D. Use IBM Spectrum Virtualize Easy Tier.

A customer is considering the purchase of an IBM Storwize V5030, but data space is a challenge. Which tool helps the customer to see how much data space can be saved when compared to the size of the current disk system?

A. Capacity Magic

B. Comprestimator

C. Workload Estimator

D. Hardware Sizing Calculator

Which product should be included as part of an IBM Storwize Family solution for a customer who desires application-aware snapshots?

A. IBM Spectrum Archive

B. IBM Virtual Storage Center

C. IBM Spectrum Control Base Edition

D. IBM Storwize Family Advanced Copy Services

Where should the quorum disks be allocated when an IBM Storwize-managed environment includes multiple storage systems?

A. Within the IBM Storwize expansion enclosure

B. Within the highest performance storage pools

C. On internal SSD drives

D. On different storage systems

A customer running IBM Storwize V7000 has requested details of where to get the IBM Storage Provider for VMware VASA.

What should the technical specialist advise the customer?

A. The required code is already part of Spectrum Virtualize and will already be installed

B. The customer should download the plug-in from the VMware support website

C. The customer should download IBM Spectrum Control Base and run it on the IBM Storwize V7000

D. The customer should download IBM Spectrum Connect and run it on a Linux server

An IBM Storwize V7000 customer is required by regulation to provide encryption for data at rest? Which option can supply the master encryption key at power on?

A. IBM SKLM

B. IBM Spectrum Control

C. Self-encrypting drives

D. SAS controller

A customer with competitive storage at two locations uses asynchronous replication for DR. The storage at the primary location has reached end-of-life.

How could the IBM Storwize Family solve the problem?

A. Replace production system and use IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility to DR site

B. Externally virtualize production and replicate to DR systems

C. Replace production system and externally virtualize DR system

D. Utilize HyperSwap with intra-cluster synchronous remote copy

A customer is considering IBM Spectrum Protect and has requested documentation that describes some reference architectures including IBM storage hardware and configuration requirements to help with their outline solution design.

The technical specialist suggests using the IBM Spectrum Protect Blueprints documentation.

On which IBM site can this documentation be found?

A. Techdocs

B. Smartseller

C. Knowledge Center

D. Developer Works

A customer needs to implement CHAP on an IBM Storwize V7000. What does CHAP provide?

A. It provides the mechanism for LUN masking

B. It provides authentication using username and password

C. It manages multipathing and load balancing

D. It manages the IQN for a group of hosts

A customer is looking to replicate data to its disaster recovery location. The customer has gathered data about I/O and throughput to the storage.

Which piece of information is needed to properly size the bandwidth needed between the two locations?

A. Peak port busy

B. Peak control unit busy

C. Peak write IOPS

D. Peak write MBps