Azure Flashcards
What are the benefits of snapshots?
a backup of the VM can be created, and later used to resume that VM from that snapshot time
What are Resource groups
A resource group is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution
What are 4 storage concepts in Azure?
- Primary Storage - memory that a CPU accesses such as RAM
- Secondary Storage - memory that IO devices access such as HDDs
- Tertiary Storage -slow memory devices such as tape drive
- Shared storage - storage that can be accessed by one or more users
What is SCSI?
SCSI is a standard to connect devices and transfer data between these devices
What is iSCI?
iSCSI is a standard providing block-level access to storage devices by sending SCSI commands over TCP/IP.
What is SAN? What is NFS?
(storage area network) is a network supporting transfer, storage and access of block level data.
NFS(network file system) is a protocol that allows access to files via a network.
What is VMDK?
(VM Disk) -a file format that describes containersfor virtual HDDs to be used in VMs
What is Thick provisioning?
say 500 GB of storage is provided, 100 GB, is actually used and 400 GB is unused.
This causes underutilization of storage capacity
What is Thin provisioning?
removes storage underutilization by allocating storage as you need it.
A storage account can contain?
containers or file shares
What authentication is required to access files?
SAS (Shared Access Signature)
To hold a storage account a _____ account is required?
Resource
What are Azure Blobs?
Azure Blob Storage, is a storage service used to store Binary Large Objects(BLOBs) where the data can be exposed to the public or stored privately.
Where are containers created? What is a container?
resource account > storage accounts ? container, containers are like computer folders.
How can Azure file share be accessed?
Shared Access Signature (SAS), azure has tools to allow access.
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer.
