Enterprise Storage Solutions

Question 1

3 types of storage

Answer 1

DAS (Direct Attached Storage)
NAS (Network Attached Storage)
SAN (Storage Area Network)

Question 2

3 types of storage interfaces

Answer 2

iSCSI
FibreChannel
FibreChannel over Ethernet

Question 3

What is
iSNS
DCB
MPIO

Answer 3

Internet Storage Name Service
Datacenter Bridging
Multipath I/O

Question 4

protocolls for NAS

Answer 4

SMB (Server Message Block)
CIFS (Common Interface File System)
NFS (Network File System)

Question 5

What is HBA ?

Answer 5

Host Bus Adapter

to enable communication via Ethernet or Fibre Channel

Question 6

Fibre Channel Components

Answer 6

A SAN
A computer with an HBA Card (Initiator)
A Fibre Channel switch

Question 7

Fibre Channel layouts

Answer 7

Arbitrated Loop (ring, no switches)
Point-to-Point (direct Connection, no switches)
Switched fabric

Question 8

Components of iSCSI SAN

Answer 8

IP Network
iSCSI targets
iSCSI initiators
iSCSI qualified name (IQN)

Question 9

Components of iSNS

Answer 9

iSNS Server
iSNS Client
iSNS Database
(iSNS protocol)

Question 10

What protocols does iSNS Support ?

Answer 10

iSCSI

Fibre Channel

Question 11

iSNS Functions

Answer 11

name Service
Discovery Domain and login control Service
state change notification Service
Mapping information to an iSNS database

Question 12

Add iSNS Server via PS

Answer 12

Set-WmiInstance -Namespace root\wmi -Class WT_iSNSServer -Arguments
@{ServerName=”iSNS-server-name”}

Question 13

view iSNS server Settings via PS

Answer 13

Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\wmi -Class WT_iSNSServer

Question 14

delete an iSNS Server via PS

Answer 14

Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\wmi -Class WT_iSNSServer -Filter “ServerName =’iSNS
-server-name’” | Remove-WmiInstance

Question 15

What protocolls does DCB support ?

Answer 15

Ethernet
Fibre Channel
InfiniBand
iSCSI

Question 16

Features of DCB

Answer 16

Congestion notification
Priority-based flow Control
Enhanced transmission selection
Data Center Bridging Capabilities eXchange (DCBX)

Question 17

Install DCB via PS

Answer 17

Install-WindowsFeature “Data-Center-Bridging”

Question 18

PS-Modules for Managing QoS functionality

Answer 18

NetQos
DcbQos
NetAdapter

Question 19

How many path can MPIO handle ?

Answer 19

up to 32

Question 20

Enable SMB 1.x audit logging

Answer 20

Set-SmbServerConfiguration -AuditSmb1Access $true

Question 21

disable SMB 1.x

Answer 21

Set-SMBServerConfiguration -EnableSMB1Protocol $false

Question 22

What version of SMB offers support for storage of SQL Server databases and Hyper-V virtual machines ?

Answer 22

SMB 3.0 and above

Question 23

What version of SMB offers the Scale-Out File Server Feature ?

Answer 23

SMB 3.02 and above

Question 24

Which OS offers SMB 3.0 ?

Answer 24

Windows 8 and Server 2012

Question 25

Which OS offers SMB 3.02 ?

Answer 25

Windows 8.1 and Server 2912R2

Question 26

Which OS offers SMB 3.11 ?

Answer 26

Windows 10 and Server2016

Question 27

What is "Preauthentication integrity", and which SMB version offers it ?

Answer 27

Secure Hash Algorithm 512 (SHA-512), SMB3.11

Question 28

Which Version aof SMB offers AES-128-CCM encryption ?

Answer 28

SMB 3.02

Question 29

Which Version of SMB offers AES-128-GCM encryption ?

Answer 29

SMB 3.11

Question 30

What is "Cluster dialect fencing" ?

Answer 30

Support for rolling upgrades : using SMB 3.02 until all Servers are upgraded, then SMB 3.11

Question 31

cmdlets for SMBShare management

Answer 31

new-SmbShare get-SmbShare set-SmbShare remove-SmbShare get-SmbSession get-SmbOpenFile get-SmbBandwithLimit set-SmbBandWidthLimit

Question 32

SMB files share Profils offered by the New Share Wizard

Answer 32

Quick - permissions - access-based enumeration (ABE) - share caching - encrypted data Access Advanced - options of "Quick" - folder owners - Default data classification - quotas Applications - settings for Hyper-V, databases, ... - no ABE - no Caching - no data classification - no quotas

Question 33

3 categories for SMB-traffic that can be set with | Set-SMBBandwithLimit

Answer 33

Default (e.g. file Shares) VirtualMachine (e.g. running a virtual harddrive on a SMB-share) LiveMigration

Question 34

install NFS on the server

Answer 34

Add-WindowsFeature FS-NFS-Service | -IncludeManagementTools

Question 35

create an NFS file share

Answer 35

New-NfsShare -Name Share1 -Path d:\shares\share1

Question 36

Authentication for an NFS share

Answer 36

- Kerberos v5 authentication | - No Server authentication

Question 37

Options for NFS share profile

Answer 37

- quick | - advanced

Question 38

cmdlet for NFS shares

Answer 38

new-NfsShare remove NfsShare get-NfsShare get-NfsSharePermission get-NfsClientConfiguration get-NfsClientGroup