A customer"™s infrastructure is currently based on a Power System E870 managed by an HMC 7042-CR6 at V8.860 SW level. They are planning to upgrade their server to a new Power System E980.
Which of the following will enable the customer to connect an HMC to the Power System E980?
Answer : C
A customer has a mission-critical IBM i application running on a POWER9 processor-based server that requires eight processor licenses. For High Availability, a
POWER9 CBU server is synchronized with the production server using PowerHA for IBM i.
What is the minimum number of IBM i processor licenses required on the CBU server?
Answer : C
Which of the following can be a consequence of running in Maximum Performance mode?
Answer : B
What are IBM"™s recommended best practices for racking and cabling on the IBM Power System E980?
Answer : C
What POWER9 processor capability has been enhanced, relative to POWER8, to enable more efficient processor utilization in support of some applications?
Answer : D
A customer is considering implementing NovaLink for critical Enterprise workloads.
Where will NovaLink run?
Answer : D
Which of the following is a feature in PowerVM?
Answer : B
A customer has multiple partitions running their AIX applications. Each partition has heavy memory requirements at different times of the day due to differences in the time zones of the users.
Which memory technique on POWER9 can be utilized to dynamically allocate memory as needed among the LPARs?
Answer : A
A customer would like to have the ability to dynamically adjust processor and memory allocations for a virtual machine. They are currently running VMware and
Linux on x86.
What is a benefit of using PowerVM over VMware on x86?
Answer : A
An IBM Business Partner is designing a production system for SAP HANA with multiple virtual machines.
Which feature of a Power System E980 server is an advantage over an x86 server for the customer?
Answer : A
A customer is interested in running many Linux workloads and they are comparing a single Power System E950 versus multiple LC922 servers.
An advantage of the Power System E950 is the ability to support:
Answer : B
What is the minimum memory capacity of a Power System E980?
Answer : B
A customer has a two node Power System E880 with EXP24S Disk Drawers and I/O Drawers used exclusively for dual VIOS local boot.
How can a Solutions Architect design a POWER9 solution to minimize the physical rack space with an upgrade to a Power System E980?
Answer : C
A customer has used Trial Capacity on Demand on their Power System E980 for two months to test the effect of activating two additional cores and 32GB of additional memory for their SAP LPAR. Being satisfied with the test result, they bought a permanent activation of two cores and 32GB memory.
They now want to do another short test that requires the activation of one additional core.
Which option provides the most cost-effective solution?
Answer : B
Which of the following statements is true regarding LPAR Mobility?
Answer : B