azure storage

Question

You are designing a storage solution for a customer that will use Azure Storage.

You are evaluating whether the customer needs a standard general purpose V2 storage account or a premium file shares storage account.

Which requirement requires the use of a premium files shares storage account?

Only select one answer.

Support for NFS file shares.

Support for Geo-zone-redundant storage (GZRS).

Support for private endpoints.

Support for SMB file shares.

Answer 1

@Nguyen Dinh Phuong (DPS.FMS) Firstly apologies for the delay in responding here!

Based on your scenario you need to choose Premium File Share. NFS 4.1 is currently only supported within new FileStorage storage account type (premium file shares only).
Premium storage account type for file shares only. Recommended for enterprise or high-performance scale applications. Use this account type if you want a storage account that supports both Server Message Block (SMB) and NFS file shares.

There are two main types of storage accounts you will use for Azure Files deployments:

General purpose version 2 (GPv2) storage accounts: GPv2 storage accounts allow you to deploy Azure file shares on standard/hard disk-based (HDD-based) hardware. In addition to storing Azure file shares, GPv2 storage accounts can store other storage resources such as blob containers, queues, or tables.
FileStorage storage accounts: FileStorage storage accounts allow you to deploy Azure file shares on premium/solid-state disk-based (SSD-based) hardware. FileStorage accounts can only be used to store Azure file shares; no other storage resources (blob containers, queues, tables, etc.) can be deployed in a FileStorage account. Only FileStorage accounts can deploy both SMB and NFS file shares.

FileStorage storage accounts allow you to deploy Azure file shares on premium/solid-state disk-based (SSD-based) hardware. FileStorage accounts can only be used to store Azure file shares; no other storage resources (blob containers, queues, tables, etc.) can be deployed in a FileStorage account.

For standard file shares, it's an upper boundary of the Azure file share, beyond which end-users cannot go. If a quota is not specified, standard file shares can span up to 100 TiB (or 5 TiB if the large file shares property is not set for a storage account). If you did not create your storage account with large file shares enabled, see Enable large files shares on an existing account for how to enable 100 TiB file shares.

For premium file shares, quota means provisioned size. The provisioned size is the amount that you will be billed for, regardless of actual usage. The IOPS and throughput available on a premium file share is based on the provisioned size. For more information on how to plan for a premium file share, see provisioning premium file shares.

For pricing refer to this article: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/details/storage/files/

Please let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further.

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Answer 2

huh? you didn't choose one of the answers. I think you mean NFS file shares as answer.

Answer 3

Answer is Support for NFS file shares

Types of storage accounts

If you want support for network file system (NFS) in Azure Files, use the premium file shares account type.

Answer 4

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/azure/storage/files/storage-files-quick-create-use-linux

Standard file shares (GPv2), LRS/ZRS

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| |Standard file shares (GPv2), GRS/GZRS|

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| |Premium file shares (FileStorage), LRS/ZRS|

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Answer 5

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/azure/storage/files/storage-files-quick-create-use-linux