A company has acquired another company and is consolidating data centers. During the consolidation， half of the users of a business critical application lost access. The users who maintained access experienced slow performance. 
What is the first action the SAN/storage administrator should take to determine the source of the problem（）

单项选择题The Business Partner technical specialist is called to determine if the addition of host ports on an IBM System Storage DS8700 has improved users’ response times for an IBM System p server running SAP.  How can the improvement be verified（）

A.check the output of the "vmstat" command on LINUX
B.check the performance reports via Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data
C.check the performance reports via Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
D.check the output of the "iostat" command on AIX

单项选择题WhatisonereasonthecustomershouldinstallIBMDS8000VirtualPrivateNetwork（VPN）technologyfortheCallHomefunction（）

A.to avoid using a more expensive dial-up modem
B.to load new licensed internal code
C.to achieve more efficient and faster problem resolution
D.to enable capacity on demand

单项选择题A customer recently installed new a SAN with an IBM System Storage DS8700 and several open systems servers to address a need for storage consolidation and still provide good response time. They have asked the Business Partner technical representative for the most complete IBM product that would allow them to do performance reporting of the new SAN environment.  What is the best solution（）

A.Tivoli Storage Manager
B.Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk
C.Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition
D.Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition

单项选择题A customer’s SAN environment has undergone significant growth over the past two years. They have also suffered a high turnover rate with administrative personnel. The customer has asked a   storage specialist for help in documenting and understanding their changing SAN environment. The ability to make configuration changes to devices would be a plus.  Which tool should the storage specialist suggest（）

A.Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Fabric Manager
B.Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Basic Edition
C.IBM TivoliNetView
D.Disk Magic

单项选择题A customer has purchased three IBM System Storage DS8700 systems and would like to have their administrators trained.  Which training alternative provides the necessary training with the least financial impact（）

A.purchase the training CD for the disk subsystem and have the staff do self-paced training
B.have the IBM Service Support Representative perform the training
C.contact IBM Education Services for an onsite training class
D.send one person at a time to an IBM training session