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A company is migrating a large amount of data from on-premises storage to AWS. Windows, Mac, and Linux based Amazon EC2 instances in the same AWS Region will access the data by using SMB and NFS storage protocols. The company will access a portion of the data routinely. The company will access the remaining data infrequently.

The company needs to design a solution to host the data.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A. Create an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volume that uses EFS Intelligent-Tiering. Use AWS DataSync to migrate the data to the EFS volume.
B. Create an Amazon FSx for ONTAP instance. Create an FSx for ONTAP file system with a root volume that uses the auto tiering policy. Migrate the data to the FSx for ONTAP volume.
C. Create an Amazon S3 bucket that uses S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Migrate the data to the S3 bucket by using an AWS Storage Gateway Amazon S3 File Gateway.
D. Create an Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file system. Migrate the data to the new volume.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

by Andy_09 at Feb. 5, 2024, 6:26 p.m.

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ogerber

Highly Voted 1 year, 4 months ago

Selected Answer: B

Amazon FsX for NetAPP ONTAP feature: Multi-protocol access to data using the Network File System (NFS), Server Message Block (SMB), and Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) protocols

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jaswantn

Highly Voted 1 year, 4 months ago

option C .... SMB and NFS storage protocols ->S3 file gateway

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FlyingHawk

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Initially I thought C is correct, but Windows, Mac, and Linux based Amazon EC2 instances in the same AWS Region will access the data by using SMB and NFS storage protocols, S3 does not provide the smb and NFS access to these ec2 instances, so c is incorrect, B is correct.

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MatAlves

9 months ago

"S3 File Gateway is used for on-premises data intensive applications that need file protocol access to objects in S3. " https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/file/s3/

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MatAlves

9 months ago

The company is MIGRATING data from on-premises to AWS. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP offers high-performance file storage that’s broadly accessible from Linux, Windows, and macOS compute instances via the industry-standard NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-over-TCP protocols. https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap/features/

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MatAlves

Most Recent 9 months ago

Selected Answer: B

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP offers high-performance file storage that’s broadly accessible from Linux, Windows, and macOS compute instances via the industry-standard NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-over-TCP protocols. https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap/features/ "S3 File Gateway is used for on-premises data intensive applications that need file protocol access to objects in S3. " https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/file/s3/

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Scheldon

11 months, 4 weeks ago

Selected Answer: B

Answer B

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rjjkc

1 year ago

Selected Answer: C

I think it is "C" Not "B" - The question never indicates the company is using "NetApp ONTAP file systems", so I am not sure what it means by "Migrate the data to the FSx for ONTAP volume". Please correct if misunderstood. "C" clearly indicates how to migrate the data to S3, the S3 Intelligent-Tiering addressed the access pattern in the question and you can SMB/NFS mount S3 bucket https://docs.aws.amazon.com/filegateway/latest/files3/using-smb-fileshare.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/filegateway/latest/files3/GettingStartedAccessFileShare.html

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TwinSpark

1 year, 1 month ago

Selected Answer: B

FSx for ONTAP support NFS and SMB Protocol, even AWS Storage Gateway Amazon S3 File Gateway support them but it is used to connect on premises devices to file on s3, not to connect ec2 instances in the same aws region

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Linuslin

1 year, 1 month ago

Selected Answer: B

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides fully managed shared storage in the AWS Cloud with the popular data access and management capabilities of ONTAP. Move workloads running on NetApp or other NFS/SMB/iSCSI servers to AWS without modifying application code or how you manage data. And FsX for NetAPP ONTAP support "Reducing storage costs with automatic and intelligent storage tiering." https://aws.amazon.com/tw/fsx/netapp-ontap/faqs/#product-faqs#netapp-ontap-faq#reducing-storage-costs-with-automatic-and-intelligent-storage-tiering

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camps

1 year, 2 months ago

it's C

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TruthWS

1 year, 2 months ago

B - FSx for ONTAP support SMB and NFS

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alawada

1 year, 2 months ago

Selected Answer: B

Amazon FsX for NetAPP ONTAP feature: Multi-protocol access to data using the Network File System (NFS), Server Message Block (SMB), and Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) protocols Option C: make no sense I see it as a distractor

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Kezuko

1 year, 3 months ago

Selected Answer: C

Both B and C works, but it seems like C has a least operational overhead

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rondelldell

1 year, 2 months ago

The company will access the remaining data infrequently."

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Kezuko

1 year, 3 months ago

https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/storagegateway/faqs/#:~:text=The%20Amazon%20S3%20File%20Gateway,be%20directly%20accessed%20in%20S3.

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dkw2342

1 year, 2 months ago

It's B, option C makes no sense. 1. "Migrate the data to the S3 bucket using an AWS Storage Gateway Amazon S3 File Gateway." -> Nothing about running the gateway to access the files via SMB and NFS afterwards. 2. Even if you ignore this, the S3 File Gateway requires a virtual appliance to be deployed (on EC2 in this case), which contradicts the "LEAST operational overhead" requirement.

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