FSX Flashcards
FSX
Amazon FSx is a fully managed third-party file system solution. It uses SSD storage to provide fast performance with low latency.
What FSX solutions are available?
-Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
-Amazon FSx for Lustre
-Amazon FSx for NetAPP ONTAP
-Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
What is Amazon FSx for Windows File Server?
A fully managed native Microsoft Windows file system with full support for the SMB protocol, Windows NTFS, and Microsoft Active Directory (AD) integration.
Common use cases for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server?
-File systems that is accessible by multiple users, and can establish permissions at the file or folder level.
-Application workloads that require shared file storage provided by Windows-based file systems (NTFS) and that use the SMB protocol.
-Media workflows like media transcoding, processing, and streaming.
-Data-intensive analytics workloads.
-Content management and web serving applications such as IIS
What compute services are supported with FSX for Windows?
-Amazon EC2
-Amazon Workspaces instances
-Amazon AppStream 2.0 instances
-VMs running in VMWare Cloud on AWS Environments
True/False. FSX for Widows works with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to integrate your file system with your existing Windows environments.
True.
How can you connect your on-premises compute instances with Windows FSx?
Supports the use of AWS Direct Connect or AWS VPN to access your file systems from your on-premises compute instances.
What is a Microsoft Windows file share?
A Microsoft Windows file share is a specific folder in your file system, including that folder’s subfolders, which you make accessible to your compute instances with the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.
What does an FSX for Windows share come with?
Your file system comes with a default Windows file share, named share. You can create and manage as many other Windows file shares as you want by using the Windows graphical user interface (GUI) tool called Shared Folders.
How can you access your FSx windows file shares?
To access your file shares, you use the Windows Map Network Drive functionality to map a drive letter on your compute instance to your Amazon FSx file share.
What are storage quotas?
You can configure user storage quotas on your file systems to limit how much data storage that users can consume. After you set quotas, you can track quota status to monitor usage and see when users surpass their quotas.
Does FSx support DFS?
Yes. You can use DFS (Distributed File System) Namespaces to group file shares on multiple file systems into one common folder structure (a namespace) that you use to access the entire file dataset.
How can you reduce data storage costs?
You can reduce your data storage costs by turning on data deduplication for your file system. Data deduplication reduces or eliminates redundant data by storing duplicated portions of the dataset only once.
What storage does FSx use?
Amazon FSx uses SSD storage, provides storage of up to 64 TB per file system, and throughput of up to 2GB/s per file system.
How can you span multiple FSx file systems to scale-out storage and throughput?
You can use DFS Namespaces to create shared common namespaces spanning multiple Amazon FSx file systems to scale-out storage and throughput. Each common namespace is capable of scaling out storage to hundreds of petabytes of data, and performance to tens of GB/s of throughput, and millions of IOPS.
How can you migrate your existing file data in to FSx?
To migrate your existing file data into Amazon FSx, use Windows’s Robust File Copy (RoboCopy) to copy your files (both the data and the full set of metadata like ownership and Access Control Lists) directly to Amazon FSx.
FSx limits?
Number of file systems: Default is 100, can be increased to thousands.
Total storage for all file systems: Default is 512 TiB, can be increased to multiple PiBs
Total throughput capacity for all file systems: Default is 10GBps, can be increased to hundreds of GBps.
Total number of user-iniitated backups for all file systems: Default is 500, can be increased to thousands