2. Implement Storage Solutions Flashcards

1
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FAT

A

File Allocation Table

4GB max partition size

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2
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FAT32

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File Allocation Table 32

32GB max partition size

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3
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ReFS

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Resilient File System

Designed to maximize data availability, scale efficiently to large data sets across diverse workloads, and provide data integrity by means of resiliency to corruption.

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4
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NTFS

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Windows NT File System

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5
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MBR

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Master Boot Record

Limited to 2TB and 4 primary partitions OR 3 primary and 1 extended

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6
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GPT

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GUID Partition Table

Recommended for configurations larger than 2TB

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7
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Basic disks

A

Divided into partitions; easily convert to dynamic disks

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8
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Dynamic disks

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Divided into volumes; destructive conversion to basic disks

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9
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Simple volume

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Uses only one disk or a portion of a disk

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10
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Spanned volume

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Simple volume that spans multiple disks with a maximum of 32

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Striped volume

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Stores data in stripes on two or more disks. Fast but not fault tolerant.

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12
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Mirrored volume

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Fault tolerant because exact copy of data is on another disk

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13
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RAID-5 volume

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Stored in stripes across three or more disks, is fault tolerant.

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14
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Volume set

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Created from volumes that span multiple drives by taking the free space on those drives to create what looks like a single drive.

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15
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Storage Pools

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A group of physical disks that allow an administrator to delegate administration, expand disk sizes and group disks together

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16
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Storage Spaces

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Allow an administrator to take free space from Storage Pools and create virtual disks called Storage Spaces. Allows control, resiliency and storage tiers.

17
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RAID

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Redundant Array of Independent Disks

18
Q

RAID versions supported by Windows Server 2016

A

RAID-0
RAID-1
RAID-5

19
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RAID-0

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Disk striping on up to 32 disks. Fast data, no fault tolerance.

20
Q

RAID-1

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One-for-one mirroring of data across disks. Halves total storage available.

21
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RAID-5

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Disk striping with parity across minimum of 3 disks up to 32 disks. Approximately one hard drive is consumed by parity information.

22
Q

Mount Points

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Used to bypass limitations of 26 drive letters. Allows a volume to be accessed from a folder on another existing disk.

23
Q

MPIO

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Multipath I/O allows multiple paths to the same storage device providing redundancy

24
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Microsoft DSM

A

Microsoft Device Specific Module is a driver that communicates with storage devices and applies load-balancing policies

25
Q

iSCSI

A

Internet Small Computer System Interface is an interconnect protocol used to establish and manage a connection between a computer (initiator) and a storage device (target). Allows block-level access.

Default port 3260

26
Q

CIFS

A

Common Internet File System

27
Q

NFS

A

Network File System allows use of Windows shares with multiple OS such as Linux

28
Q

iSNS

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Internet Storage Name Service allows for central registration of an iSCSI environment because it automatically discovers available targets on the network. Its purpose is to help find available targets on a large iSCSI network.

29
Q

Thin provisioning and Trim

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Trim automatically reclaims free space that is not being used by thin-provisioned disks

30
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Fibre Channel

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Similar abilities as iSCSI storage but requires dedicated fibre-optic hardware.

31
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NPIV

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N-Port Identification Virtualization is a fibre channel facility allowing multiple N-port IDs to share a single physical N-Port

32
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NAS

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Network Attached Storage provides access to data at the file level vs the block level and are easy to install/maintain

33
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VDS

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Virtual Disk Service is a set of APIs which provides a centralized interface for managing various storage devices

34
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DCB

A

Data Center Bridging allows hardware control over the flow and prioritization of data on the ethernet infrastructure

35
Q

bcdedit.exe

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Command-line utility which lets you modify the boot options in the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store

36
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Data deduplication

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Process of segmenting redundant data into data chunks and creating markers that direct the computer system to the data blocks within the data store. (Data stored only once)