5. Server Storage

The marketing group in your organization is planning a new campaign that will involve extensive use of online videos. Development of these videos will consume a significant amount of storage on the Windows server that you manage. To meet their needs, you plan to implement a new storage pool on the server using the following parameters: Three-way mirroring will be used for redundancy. Write-back caching will be used to optimize performance. Tiering will be used to ensure that the most important files are stored on the fastest storage devices. What is the minimum number of SSD drives that should be used in the pool?

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You need to create a storage space on a Windows server that will store files used by the research and development employees in your organization. Because the data stored in the storage space is vital to the success of your organization, you decide to use three-way mirroring to provide redundancy for the storage space. To enhance redundancy, you decided to use the enclosure awareness feature of Windows Server to mirror data between multiple storage enclosures. Because of the critical nature of the data, you need the storage space to be able to tolerate up to two failed enclosures. How many compatible storage enclosures will be required to meet these design requirements?

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Srv8 has the disk configuration shown in the image. You would like to add fault tolerance and improve performance of the Data volume. What should you do?

Back up the Data volume. Delete the existing Data volume. Convert all disks to dynamic disks. Create a RAID 5 volume using the three hard disks. Restore the Data volume to the new volume.

The srv7 server has a single 500 GB hard disk installed. A single volume named System uses all 100 GB on the disk and holds the operating system and system files. You need to configure disk storage as follows: You want to create a second volume named Data that is 1 TB in size. You want to add fault tolerance to both the System and the Data volumes. If possible, you want both volumes to provide increased performance. You will add 1 TB hard disks to the system as necessary to meet these goals. You want to add the minimum number of hard disks. How many disks should you add?

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You are in the process of configuring an iSCSI storage area network (SAN) for your network. Srv3 is a Windows server that connects to the SAN. You want to configure the server to provide services for automatic discovery of iSCSI devices and control access to targets using zones or domains. What should you do?

Add the Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) feature.

You are the network administrator for Corpnet.com. A file server named File1 has been configured with the iSCSI Target Role service. You configure an iSCSI virtual disk and target on File1. You need to configure the iSCSI initiator on File2 to automatically reconnect to the iSCSI target on File1. What should you do?

Add the iSCSI target on File1 to the Favorite Targets list in the iSCSI Initiator on File2

Srv7 currently has a single hard disk. The System volume takes up the entire hard disk. You need to create a new volume named Data for storing files used by applications running on the server. You want the new volume to optimize performance. Fault tolerance is not necessary for this volume. What should you do?

Add two hard disks. Convert both disks to dynamic. Create a new striped volume using both disks.

Your Windows server has a 596 GB storage virtual disk that is shared with network users. The virtual disk was created from a storage pool composed of three 500 GB SATA hard disks. The virtual disk uses parity for resiliency. The virtual disk is nearly out of free space. Marketing recently informed you that it will be conducting a new campaign that will require a large amount of data to be stored on the virtual disk. You need to add capacity to the virtual disk as quickly as possible with the least amount of administrative effort. What should you do? (Choose two. Each option selected is a part of the overall solution.)

Allocate available space to the pool and virtual disk. Install an additional hard disk drive in the system.

You want to configure a Windows computer to boot to a Windows 10 installation on a VHD file. You will use the image on the Windows installation disk. You have downloaded the Windows AIK tools. You create a virtual disk file using Disk Management. What should you do next?

Attach the VHD

You are the network administrator for westsim.com. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. The network contains a Storage Area network (SAN). The network contains a server named MS1 that has an iSCSI host bus adapter that connects to an iSCSI target. You need to ensure that MS1 can connect to the iSCSI target even if a host bus adapter fails. You install an additional iSCSI host bus adapter on MS1. What should you do next?

Configure Multipath I/O

You are designing the storage for your network. Your storage solution should meet the following requirements: Multiple servers should have access to a single storage device. Servers should use block-level commands for data transfer to the storage device. You want to use CHAP and IPsec for data traffic. What should you do? (Select two. Each choice is a required part of the solutions.)

Configure an iSCSI SAN Configure LUNs pointing to targets.

You are planning a storage solution for a new Windows server. The server will be used for file and print services and as a database server. The new server has five hard disks, all with equal capacity. Your storage solution should meet the following requirements: System files should be on a volume separate from data files All volumes should be protected so that the server can continue to run in the event of a failure of one of the disks The data volume should be optimized for improved disk access times You will use Windows Disk Management to create and manage volumes. What should you do?

Create a mirrored volume using two disks for the system volume and a RAID-5 volume using three disks for the data volume.

Srv12 has the disk configuration shown in the image. The System volume is running out of space. You have already tried moving everything non-essential from the System volume to the Data volume, but several applications must be installed on the System volume and cannot be moved. You need to add space to the System volume. What should you do?

Create a new volume on Disk 1 and mount the volume to an empty folder on the System volume.

You manage a Windows server with four 1 TB SCSI hard disks installed. The first hard disk contains the system volume, which uses the entire drive. You want to implement a virtual disk using a storage pool on the system that meets the following criteria: You need to create one pool on the system that uses all available space in the system. You need to create four separate 800 GB virtual disks. Each virtual disk must use parity for resiliency. You need to accomplish this by using the least amount of hardware and administrative effort possible. What should you do?

Create the virtual disks using the hard disks currently installed

You are the network administrator for Corpnet.com. You have implemented several iSCSI SANs. You need to configure a central location that clients can use to discover iSCSI resources automatically. What should you do?

Deploy the iSNS Server feature.

You manage a Windows server named Srv2. The server is currently connected to an iSCSI Storage Area network (SAN). You want to view a report of all LUNs on an iSCSI device. The iSCSI device is VDS capable, and you have installed the VDS provider on the server. Which command should you use?

DiskRAID.exe

Which type of VHD file allocates additional physical disk space in the file as virtual disk storage is used?

Dynamically expanding

You are the network administrator for Corpnet.com. You have a file server named File1 that runs Windows Server. File1 is running low on disk space. You need to determine whether this volume should have deduplication enabled. Which of the following conditions would make File1 a good candidate for deduplication? (Select two.)

File1 contains shared folders with user documents that are modified infrequently. File1 contains virtual hard disk file storage for provisioning to hypervisors.

Data deduplication finds and removes duplicate information across files without compromising data integrity. The data deduplication optimization process uses a four-step process. Use the left/right arrow buttons to move the steps that are part of the data deduplication optimization process from the list on the left to the list on the right. Use the up/down arrows to put the steps into the correct order on the right.

Files are segmented into 32-128 KB chunks Duplicate chunks are identified One copy of each chunk is saved Chunks are compressed and organized

You currently use a Windows 7 desktop system. You have been asked to evaluate Windows 10 as a possible upgrade for the Windows 7 systems you manage. You decided to install Windows 10 in a VHD file on your Windows 7 system. To ensure that the evaluation is realistic you need to ensure the best possible performance. Which type of VHD file should you use?

Fixed size

The company's CIO has asked you to consolidate services and servers to span four member servers. The two additional member servers, CORP05 and CORP06, will be reconfigured and shipped to a remote office. Each of the six member servers contain two disks configured dynamic. You need to relocate the second disk from CORP05 and CORP06 to CORP03 and CORP04 to retain the stored user data. You have removed the second disk from CORP05 and CORP06 using Device Manager. You added the disks to CORP03 and CORP04. What should you do next?

Import the disks.

Your server has a SATA hard disk connected to the SATA0 connector on the motherboard. The Windows Server operating system has been installed on this disk. The system volume on this disk uses the entire drive. The computer also has two additional SATA hard disks installed. One is connected to the SATA3 connector, and the other is connected to the SATA5 connector on the motherboard. You want to create a virtual disk using a storage pool in this system that uses parity for resiliency. What should you do?

Install an additional hard disk in the system.

You are the network administrator for Corpnet.com. You have a file server named File1 that runs Windows Server. File1 is running low on disk space. You determine that a significant percentage of the data on File1 consists of duplicate files. You would like to remove duplicate data to free up space on File1. You do not want the solution to impact the users' ability to access duplicate data. What should you do?

Install and configure the Data Deduplication Role service.

You are getting ready to install a new Windows Server as a file and print server. You would like to implement a storage solution for the new server such that the data volume remains available in the event of a single disk or disk controller failure. If possible, you would also like to improve disk access performance. How should you configure the data volume?

Install three hard disks, each on a different controller. Create a RAID 5 volume.

Your server has a SATA hard disk connected to the SATA0 connector on the motherboard. The Windows Server operating system has been installed on this disk. The system volume on this disk uses the entire drive. The computer also has two additional SATA hard disks installed. One is connected to the SATA3 connector, and the other is connected to the SATA5 connector on the motherboard. You want to create a virtual disk using a storage pool in this system. Because reliability is paramount for this system, you want to use a mirrored layout that allows the virtual disk to be able to survive two simultaneous disk failures in the pool. What should you do?

Install two additional hard disks in the system

You are getting ready to install a new Windows server as a domain controller. You would like to implement a storage solution for the new server so that the system volume remains available in the event of a single disk or disk controller failure. If possible, you would also like to improve disk access performance. What should you do?

Install two hard disks, each on a different disk controller. Create a RAID 1 volume for the system volume.

Srv8 has the disk configuration shown in the image. You convert all disks to dynamic disks. If possible, you would like to add fault tolerance and improve performance for the Data volume. What should you do?

Mirror the existing volume using Disk 1

You need to create a storage space on a Windows server that will store files used by the research and development employees in your organization. During the product development process, many files stored in the storage space will be accessed frequently. Disk performance is critical for these files. However, an archive of files used for previous designs will also be stored on the same storage space. This archive is very large, but it will be accessed infrequently. To accommodate these requirements, you decide to implement tiering within a mirrored storage space. You plan to complete the following: Install four SSDs and eight HDDs in the server. Create a storage pool using all of the space on all 12 drives. Create a new virtual disk from the space in the pool with storage tiers and thin provisioning enabled. Create an NTFS volume on the virtual disk. Will this configuration work?

No. Tiering requires that virtual disks use fixed provisioning.

You need to increase the size of the storage pool named Pool1 by adding PhysicalDisk4 to the pool. Click the option you would use in Storage Manger to do this.

Pool 1

You want to configure a computer to boot to a Windows installation on a VHD file. You will use the install.wim image on the Windows installation disk. You have downloaded the Windows AIK tools. You create and attach a virtual disk file using Disk Management. You run ImageX to apply the image to the VHD file. What should you do next?

Run BCDEdit to create a BCD entry pointing to the VHD file.

You want to configure a computer to boot to a Windows installation on a VHD file. You have downloaded the Windows AIK tools. You create and attach a virtual disk file using Disk Management. What should you do next?

Run ImageX to apply the install.wim image to the VHD

You have Windows installed on a VHD on a system that is not running a hypervisor. Which of the following are you unable to do?

Run Windows from the VHD concurrently with the system's host operating system.

You need to copy files to a VHD file that contains a Windows installation. Which of the following steps can you use to make this possible?

Run diskpart.exe and then use the list, select, and attach commands.

Data deduplication has three schedules configured by default. The optimization process runs every hour by default. Which of the following deduplication processes run once per week by default? (Select two.)

Scrubbing Garbage collection

You are creating a virtual disk on a Windows server. You've installed three 1 TB hard disks in the system and added them to the storage pool where the virtual disk is being created. You want the virtual disk to stripe data across all three disks and utilize the maximum amount of storage capacity possible from the storage pool. Click the option you would use in the New Virtual Disk wizard to accomplish this.

Simple

You need to enable data deduplication on your servers' data volume. You add the Data Deduplication role service and then use the DDPEval.exe utility to analyze server volumes for data deduplication. Now you need to use Server Manager to configure data deduplication on the data volume. Which of the following steps are part of the configuration process? (Select three.)

Specify the number of days that should elapse from the date of file creation until files are deduplicated. Specify the extensions of any file types that should not be deduplicated. Enable data deduplication

The research and development group in your organization is designing a new product. Development of this product will require a significant amount of storage on the Windows server that you manage. To meet their needs, you plant to implement a new storage pool on the server using the following parameters: Two-way mirroring will be used for redundancy. Write-back caching will be used to optimize performance. Tiering will be used to ensure that the most important files are stored on the fastest storage devices. You create the storage pool, virtual disk, and volume. However, when you view the properties of the volume in Storage Manager, you see the screen shown in the exhibit. What problems exists in this configuration?

There are not enough SSD drives in the pool to support write-back caching.

You want to view, but not modify the installation and data files in the VHD file. What should you do?

Use Disk Management to attach the VHD file as read-only

You want to create a VHD file with the following settings: Size: 200 GB Location: F:\VHDS Name: Win10vhd Which DiskPart command should you use?

create vdisk file=f:\VHDS\Win10vhd.vhd maximum=204800

You are in the process of configuring an iSCSI storage area network (SAN) for your network. You want to configure a Windows server to connect to an iSCSI target defined on a different server system. You also need to define iSCSI security settings, including CHAP and IPsec. Which toll should you use?

iSCSI Initiator

You are in the process of configuring an iSCSI storage are network (SAN) for your network. You have installed the SAN fabric and need to configure a Windows server to connect to the storage device. You need to define iSCSI targets on the server.

iSCSI under File and Storage Services in Server Manager