IBM C4090-453

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Provide Pre-sales Technical Support (11%)

• Articulate the differences (with other IBM storage) and/or advantages of currently marketed IBM DS8000 solutions in a System z, IBM i, or distributed systems environment
  
• Articulate technical capabilities of the DS8000 system
  

Gather Customer Requirements (13%)

• Identify customer's business drivers and goals (pain points)
  
• Identify customer's technology requirements
  
• Identify constraints in customer's physical environment
  

Architect a Storage Solution that Addresses the Customers Business and Technical Requirements (43%)

• Architect the solution to comply with the customer's existing site constraints
  
• Ensure the solution is supported in the customer's SAN and server infrastructure
  
• Configure the system to meet the customer's requirements, e.g., cache size, Fibre Channel ports, etc.
  
• Determine the capacity required to support multiple platforms (i.e., open systems, IBM i, and mainframe workloads sharing a single system)
  
• Develop a configuration to meet the desired performance of the storage subsystem
  
• Architect a solution including other advanced functions of the DS8000, including Easy Tier, encryption, thin provisioning, and QoS
  
• Architect a replication solution in metro, global and three-site environments including sizing of connectivity requirements
  
• Architect a point-in-time copy solution
  
• Determine the appropriate OEL and Advanced Function licenses
  
• Verify SAN connectivity requirements to suport the customer's requirements
  
• Identify requirements and benefits of additional external software, e.g., Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.1, FlashCopy Manager, Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager, GDPS (Geographically Disbursed Parallel Sysplex), PowerHA
  
• Develop installation plan/schedule in conjunction with the customer
  
• Develop a migration plan that meets customer requirements regarding outage and effort
  
• Conduct a technical and delivery assessment (TDA) of a DS8000, e.g., Pre-sales TDA, Pre-install TDA, Post-install TDA
  

Design and Implement the Solution (24%)

• Understand how to perform administrative tasks in the CLI and GUI
  
• Understand license management
  
• Design the logical configuration, e.g., extent pools, tiering, etc.
  
• Design host access including QoS
  
• Design a detailed point-in-time copy solution
  
• Design a remote copy services solution
  
• Enable the remote support capabilities
  
• Implement/integrate the local alerting, e.g., SNMP, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, etc.
  
• Understand the requirements for encryption implementation and secure erase
  

Provide Post-installation Support (9%)

• Conduct post installation review to determine if proposed benefits were realized
  
• Educate the customer on problem resolution procedures
  
• Determine the correct IBM process, procedure or resource to resolve customer problems