A customer is required to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that deliver certain performance levels for two mission-critical applications. He has trouble meeting these requirements and asks how Microsoft datacenter solutions can help. What is an appropriate response?
A. Windows Server 2012 R2 lowers downtime to meet SLA requirements by coordinating software updates on all servers in a failover cluster while maintaining continuous availability as appropriate.B. Service templates in System Center 2012 R2 enable application owners to adhere to SLA requirements by specifying parameters that enable application scaling once relevant thresholds are reached.
C. Windows Server 2012 R2 contains the network quality-of-service (QoS) capability, which provides the ability to adhere to SLAs by guaranteeing minimum bandwidth available to a virtual machine (VM) or a port.
D. Live Migration in Windows Server 2012 R2 enables new levels of performance with which to meet SLA requirements in the form of compression and remote direct memory access (RDMA) offload.
Answer : C.
Presales Technical Assessment
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- A customer objects to System Center 2012 R2 on the basis that she is already invested in HP and a migration would be too expensive. What is an appropriate response?
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- Which of the following is not one of the “big four” competitors to Microsoft datacenter solutions?
- Which of the following is a hybrid cloud benefit that is important to a business decision maker (BDM)?
- Which of the following is a hybrid cloud benefit that is important to a business decision maker (BDM)?
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