Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
This section contains the solutions to the thought experiments and answers to the objective
review questions in this chapter.
1.
The answer will depend on the scheme you develop. If you've reviewed all of the
question, you know that you have to leave room for a classification to indicate that
there may be better storage available in future. You could choose Gold here, and use
Platinum with question four.
2.
The classification for this storage should indicate that the performance is below that of
the directly attached solid-state disk array
3.
The classification for this storage should indicate that the performance is below the
solid-state disk array, the Fibre Channel RAID 5 SAS, and the mirrored iSCSI storage.
Depending on what you chose, it would have to be thematically consistent with the
other classifications. That means that if you chose Gold/Silver/Bronze/Tin that this
would be something like Platinum, rather than Alpha or A1
4.
Correct answer:
D
a.
Incorrect:
Available capacity requires a storage pool, which is available either
through a SAN device or a Scale-Out File Server.
Incorrect:
Writable snapshot of a virtual disk requires block-level storage, either
through a SAN device or a Scale-Out File Server.
B.
Incorrect:
Clone of a virtual disk requires block-level storage, either through a
SAN device or a Scale-Out File Server.
C.
Correct:
File level storage is available on SMB 3.0 file shares. You can deploy this
type of storage when you haven't deployed block-level storage.
D.
Correct answer:
A and D
a.
2.
Correct:
Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 support SMB 3.0,
which is required when providing file share storage for use by VMM.
Incorrect:
SMB 3.0 support is required for a file server to be able to provide stor-
age to VMM. Windows Server 2008 R2 doesn't support SMB 3.0
B.
Incorrect:
SMB 3.0 support is required for a file server to be able to provide stor-
age to VMM. Windows Server 2003 doesn't support SMB 3.0.
C.
Correct:
Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 support SMB 3.0,
which is required when providing file share storage for use by VMM.
D.
