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Advanced Storage Flashcards

1
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What is iSCSI?

A

Allows accessing storage over an IP network

Sends SCSI commands over network to SCSI compatible devices

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What is iSNS?

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Internet Storage Name Service

Discovery & Configuration of iSCSI targets, for simplified deployment

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What is DCB?

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Data Center Bridging

Network traffic policy allows SAN and LAN to coexist (converged network) combat packet loss

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What is MPIO?

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Multiple network paths to storage devices provided redundant connections to storage
*can use DSM for load balancing across pipes

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What is RPO in disaster recovery?

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Recovery Point Objective

How much data loss can be endured

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What is RTO in disaster recovery?

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Recovery Time Objective

How long can business operate without specific application

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What is disaster preparedness?

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Ability to move workloads to another location

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What is storage replica?

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Volume-Based Block-Level replication

*files can be in use

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What is synchronous replication?

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Data must be written to all volumes in replication group before I/O is marked as complete
*0 data loss, can be slower

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What is asynchronous replication?

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Data is replicated to all volumes without waiting for acknowlegement
*ideal for low bandwidth, high latency connection

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What is server-to-server storage replication?

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Replication partnership across servers

*only supports manual failover

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What is cluster-to-cluster storage replication?

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Replication partnership across HA clusters

*only supports manual failover

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13
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What is a stretch cluster?

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Replication partnership within single cluster

*supports automatic failover

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What is the PoSH command to configure replication between volumes on servers or clusters?

A

New-SRPartnership

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What is the PoSH command to view replication status?

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(Get-SRGroup).Replicas

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16
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What is the data deduplication optimisation job?

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Deduplicates data

Once an hour

17
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What is the data deduplication garbage collection job?

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Reclaims disk space by clearing our chunk store

Once a week

18
Q

What is the data deduplication scrubbing

A

Identifies corruption

Once a week

19
Q

What is the data deduplication unoptimisation job?

A

Reverts and disables deduplication

Manual

20
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How does data deduplication work?

A

Scans pieces of files, stores them in chunk store

Replaces identical chunks with pointers to chunk store

Windows Server 2016 (15 decks)

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