Seamless Integration with AWS Storage Gateway for MSP Bank
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MSP Bank, Limited is a leading Japanese monetary institution that provides a full range of financial products and services to both institutional and individual customers.
It is headquartered in Tokyo.
MSP Bank is hosting their existing infrastructure on premise. MSP bank has lot of web applications, databases and data warehouse built on Teradata, NoSQL databases, and other types of data stores.
MSP bank has lot of data assets in terms of logs, documents; excel files, CSV files, PDF documents and others.
MSP Bank wants to provide seamless integration with data security features between their on-premises IT environment and the AWS storage infrastructure.
MSP bank considers AWS Storage Gateway to address the integration. MSP Bank looking at interface into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and combines a service and a virtual software appliance through which the team can store and retrieve objects in Amazon S3 using industry-standard file protocols such as Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB)
The gateway provides access to objects in S3 as files or file share mount points.
Which option of Storage Gateway supports this feature? select 1 option.
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A. B. C. D.Answer: B.
Option A is incorrect -A volume gateway provides cloud-backed storage volumes that you can mount as Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) devices from your on-premises application servers.
The gateway supports the following volume configurations:
oCached volumes - You store your data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and retain a copy of frequently accessed data subsets locally.
Cached volumes offer a substantial cost savings on primary storage and minimize the need to scale your storage on- premises.
You also retainlow-latency access to your frequently accessed data.
oStored volumes - If you need low-latency access to your entire dataset, first configure your on-premises gateway to store all your data locally.
Then asynchronously back up point-in- time snapshots of this data to Amazon S3
This configuration provides durable and inexpensive offsite backups that you can recover to your local data center or Amazon EC2
For example, if you need replacement capacity for disaster recovery, you can recover the backups to Amazon EC2
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/WhatIsStorageGateway.htmlOption B is correct -A file gateway supports a file interface into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and combines a service and a virtual software appliance.
By using this combination, store and retrieve objects in Amazon S3 using industry-standard file protocols such as Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB)
The software appliance, or gateway, is deployed into your on-premisesenvironment as a virtual machine (VM) running on VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor.
The gateway provides access to objects in S3 as files or file share mount points.
With a file gateway, you can do the following:
You can store and retrieve files directly using the NFS version 3 or 4.1 protocol.
You can store and retrieve files directly using the SMB file system version, 2 and 3 protocol.
You can access your data directly in Amazon S3 from any AWS Cloud application or service.
You can manage your Amazon S3 data using lifecycle policies, cross-region replication, and versioning.
You can think of a file gateway as a file system mount on S3
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/WhatIsStorageGateway.htmlOption C is incorrect -With a tape gateway, cost-effectively and durably archive backup data in Glacier.
A tape gateway provides a virtual tape infrastructure that scales seamlessly with your business needs and eliminates the operational burden of provisioning, scaling, and maintaining a physical tape infrastructure.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/WhatIsStorageGateway.htmlThe option of AWS Storage Gateway that provides seamless integration between on-premises IT environments and AWS storage infrastructure using industry-standard file protocols such as Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB) is File Gateway, which is option B.
AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid storage service that enables on-premises applications to use cloud storage. AWS Storage Gateway provides three different types of gateways, namely Volume Gateway, File Gateway, and Tape Gateway.
Volume Gateway allows applications to use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes as block-based storage devices, while Tape Gateway enables applications to store data in Amazon S3 using the common tape-based backup application interface.
On the other hand, File Gateway provides a file interface to store and retrieve objects in Amazon S3 using standard file protocols such as NFS and SMB. With File Gateway, on-premises applications can access objects in Amazon S3 as files or file share mount points, which makes it an ideal choice for MSP Bank to use for seamless integration between their on-premises IT environment and AWS storage infrastructure.
In summary, the correct option for MSP Bank to support seamless integration between their on-premises IT environment and AWS storage infrastructure using industry-standard file protocols such as NFS and SMB is File Gateway, which is option B.
