L50-503 LSI SVM5 Sales Consultant Questions and Answers

by allocating capacity across RAID arrays

by striping volumes across RAID arrays

by mirroring volumes across RAID arrays

by provisioning additional servers

replacing existing hardware

undepreciated assets

salaries

benefits

Thin provisioning reduces the effective capacity growth rate.

Thin provisioning reduces the amount of data actually stored.

Storage pooling reclaims stranded capacity.

Storage pooling enhances performance.

HDS USP-VM

NetApp V-Series

EMC Invista

IBM SVC

Continue operations during infrastructure upgrades.

Introduce new storage devices quickly.

Eliminate storage previously reserved for backups and copies.

Reduce cost by utilizing high end storage only for high end data.

Reduce cost associated to application engineering.

the target storage devices

the Fibre Channel to IP converters

the communications links/bandwidth

the disaster recovery test mechanism

MetroMirror

FlexClone

Thin Provisioning

TrueCopy

SnapShot

(yearly revenue) divided by (number of business days in a year multiplied by the number of business hours in a day)

(yearly revenue) divided by (number of employees multiplied by the number of business hours in a day)

(yearly revenue) divided by (duration of outage multiplied by employee hourly wage)

each industry has a fixed rate that is unique

Having a disaster recovery site is required by law.

Adjusting RPO and RTO can reduce the overall costs.

Using the disaster recovery site for backup and test can reduce the overall costs.

With today's technology, the further the disaster recovery sites are apart the lower the network costs.

Reduces CAPEX.

Reduces cost of waste.

Reduces utilization.

Reduces Tier 1 storage.

Reduces application disruptions.

EMC Clariion

HDS USP-VM

3PAR InServ

Compellent Storage Center

SVM snapshots will eliminate tape from the customer's environment.

SVM makes it possible to keep the point-in-time snapshots online for extended periods of time and to recover from them quickly.

SVM snapshots can eliminate the need to install backup agents on every virtual machine.

SVM snapshots will protect from physical failures.

SVM snapshots can be used to reduce time required to stage, test, and debug software applications.

Developers will benefit from faster processing speeds on the snapshots.

Multiple developers can work on their own discrete copies of an application.

Multiple developers can work on their own full size copy of an application.

Instant copies of up-to-date production data can be taken without taking the live application offline.

Pool your tape into the SVM environment.

Zero window restore utilizing multiView snapshots.

Eliminate tape by mirroring your data to a remote site.

Thin provisioning of your volumes eliminates the need for backup.

SVM can reserve space for future use on a LUN-by-LUN basis.

SVM can build RAID structures for enhanced data protection.

SVM can migrate data from multiple storage arrays onto a single storage array.

SVM can make snapshots of volume groups that are spread across multiple storage arrays.