A potential D68870 customer asks the technical specialist which extent size is used to relocate hot extents from normal SAS disk resources to SSDs because they want to understand IBM's adjustment compared to the other high end disk suppliers.
Which is the extent size used for DSS000 Easy Tier data relocation?
A new DS8000 z/OS storage customer needs to configure the DSS000 system's host adapter ports to Brocade SAN directors for host access in a Metro Mirror solution.
Which protocols must be configured for this system?
A mainframe customer would like to receive a proposal for a mainframe storage system with 120 TB raw capacity. The mainframe server load is not too high, and they need drives with the lowest possible power consumption to keep operating costs low. The customer will not increase the capacity of their mainframe applications in the future but rather invest later into their Power servers.
Which of the following solutions best meets these requirements at the lowest cost?
The installation of a DSS000 cannot be performed by the Customer Engineer until the Customization and Configuration Worksheets have been completed.
In which document are these worksheets found?
A new D58000 mixed mainframe and open storage customer would like to connect older open (2 Gbps) and mainframe servers (4 Gbps) to the DS8000 system's 8 Gbps host adapters.
How can this be done?
What factor in the architecture of the DSS000 allows for concurrent microcode updates to be performed?
Which of the following elements provides data integrity in the DS8000?