Azure Storage

Question 1

What is SMB Protocol?

Answer 1

• SMB - Server Message Block
• Enable communicate with remote machine to share file
• This Allow Map a Drive to a remote file share and have this network drive access on that compute like a local hard disk.
• Latest Version SMB 3.0
• IBM → Microsoft

Question 2

What is NFS Protocol?

Answer 2

• Sun Microsystem
• Latest Version 4
• For Linux

Question 3

What is Azure Files?

Answer 3

• Azure Files provides a cloud-based file share for storing and sharing files.
• You can think of Azure Files as a standard file share, hosted on Azure, that you can access with the industry standard SMB protocol.
• You can mount or connect to an Azure file share at the same time on all the main operating systems.

Question 4

Data Access Method for Azure Files? 2

Answer 4

Method 1 - Direct access via a mounted drive in your operating system.
Method 2 - Use a Windows File Server (either on-premises or in Azure) and install Azure File Sync to synchronize the files between local shares and Azure Files. Azure File Sync Agent installed on Windows file server.

Question 5

Data Migration Options to Azure Files ? 6

Answer 5

• AzCopy - Command-line tool that offers the best performance, especially for a low volume of small files.
• Robocopy - Command-line tool shipped with Windows and Windows Server. AzCopy is written to be Azure aware and performs better
• Azure Storage Explorer - Graphical file management utility that runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• Azure portal - Use the portal to import files and folders.
• Azure File Sync - Can be used to do the initial data transfer, and then uninstalled after the data is transferred.
• Azure Data Box - If you have up to 35 TB of data and you need it imported in less than a week.

Question 6

Disk performance measures? 2

Answer 6

• Input/output operations per second (IOPS)
• Throughput (data transfer rate) - Throughput measures the rate at which data can be moved onto the disk from the host computer and off the disk to the host computer. measured in megabytes per second (MBps)

Question 7

Type of Disk to Select? 4

Answer 7

• Ultra SSD
• Premium SSD
• Standard SSD
• Standard HDD

Question 8

Tools for troubleshooting Azure Storage? 3

Answer 8

• Azure portal
• Azure Storage Explorer
• AzCopy