Which solution provides virtualization, consolidation, and automation for a cloud deployment?
IBM Virtual Storage Center is a storage virtualization platform and a storage management solution for cloud-based and software-defined storage. Virtual Storage Center enables organizations to monitor, automate and analyze storage.
A customer has expressed difficulty in proactively monitoring and reviewing performance data for multiple core-edge topology SAN fabrics consisting of IBM branded SAN switches.
Which tool provides this capability?
A customer has a requirement to add high availability to all systems in the data center. It has an IBM TS4500 tape Library in use.
What must be added to the library to meet the high availability requirement?
When an optional second accessor is installed, the TS4500 tape library features high availability (HA) which enhances the library performance.
A customer needs to exchange encrypted data cartridges with another company. A competitor offers a solution that encrypts the data with static keys loaded the tape drives. IBM proposes IBM TS1150 tape drives using the built-in encryption feature.
Which competitive advantage does the IBM TS1150 solution provide?
How the encryption key server processes encryption keys
In system-managed and library-managed tape encryption, unencrypted data (clear text) is sent to the tape drive (TS1150 Tape Drive, TS1140 Tape Drive, TS1130 Tape Drive or TS1120 Tape Drive), and converted to ciphertext using a symmetric 256-bit AES Data Key (DK) generated by the encryption key server. The ciphertext is then written to tape. The encryption key server uses a single, unique Data Key for each Enterprise Tape Cartridge. This Data Key is also encrypted, or wrapped, by the encryption key server using the public key from an asymmetric Key Encrypting Key (KEK) pair. This process creates an Externally Encrypted Data Key (EEDK). The EEDK is written to the cartridge memory and to three additional places on the tape media in the cartridge. The tape cartridge now holds both the encrypted data and the means to decrypt it for anyone holding the private part of the KEK pair.
The DK may also be wrapped a second time using the public key of another party to create an additional EEDK. Both EEDKs can be stored on the tape cartridge. In this way, the tape cartridge can be shipped to a business partner holding the corresponding private key. That private key would allow the DK to be unwrapped and the tape decrypted by the business partner.
References: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STFS69_3.3.0/ts7740_encryption_keys.html
A customer has large capacity growth requirements and is concerned about the ability to redistribute the dat
a. The customer experiences long delays in deployment with its current storage vendor.
Which storage system meets the customer's requirements?
