Sunday, November 3, 2013

Storage Resources (Part 1)

Q1. What is primary and extended partition?
  •  Primary partition is an active partition where the hardware looks for boot files to start the operating system. Extended partition is created from whatever free space remains on the disk after creating the primary partition.
 
Q2. What is Internet SCSI (iSCSI)?
  • iSCSI is an industry standard that enables transmission of Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) block commands over the existing Internet Protocol (IP) network by using the TCP/IP protocol. It provides the possibility of delivering both messaging traffic and block-based storage over existing IP networks, without installing a separate and expensive Fiber Channel Network. 


Q3. What is SCSI?
  • SCSI (Pronounced as scuzzy) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between peripheral devices and computers.
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Q4. What is Distributed File System or Network File System (DFS/NFS)?
  • DFS/NFS is any file system that allows access to multiple user on multiple machines to share files and storage resources.
 
Q5. What technologies are used in DFS?
  • The two technologies used in DFS are DFS Namespaces and DFS replication.
 
Q6. What is the role of DFS Namespaces?
  • DFS Namespaces enable grouping of shared folders located on different servers into one or more logically structured namespaces.
 
Q7. What is the role of DFS replication?
  • DFS replication keeps the folders synchronized between servers across network connections. It replaces the File Replication Service as the replication engine for DFS Namespaces, as well as for replicating the AD DS SYSVOL folder in domains that use the Windows Server 2008  domain functional level.
 
Q8. What are Shadow Copies for Shared Folders?
  • Shadow Copies for Shared Folders are point-in-time copies of files that are located on shared resources, such as a file server. Users can view shared files and folders as they existed at points of time in the past by using Shadow Copies for Shared Folders.
 
Q9. What is the use of Shadow Copies? 
  • Recovery of files that are accidentally deleted
  • Recovery of accidentally overwritten file
  • Comparing different versions of a file while working

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