A company is planning to migrate an on-premises business application to Azure Virtual Machines. The application has two distinct storage requirements:
1. A shared file system that can be mounted concurrently by multiple virtual machines running Windows Server using the standard SMB protocol.
2. A long-term archiving solution for historical transaction logs that are rarely accessed (less than once a year), where minimizing storage cost is the primary priority and a retrieval latency of several hours is acceptable.
Which two of the following Azure Storage solutions should the company implement? (Select two.)
- Azure Files to provide the shared file system using the SMB protocolCevap
- Azure Blob Storage using the Archive access tier for long-term log storageCevap
- CAzure Disk Storage with shared disks to host the SMB share without additional virtual machine configuration
- DAzure Blob Storage using the Archive access tier configured for direct read-only query access
Cevap
The company should implement Azure Files to provide the shared SMB file system and Azure Blob Storage using the Archive access tier for long-term log storage.
Azure Files provides a fully managed SMB file share that can be mounted concurrently by multiple virtual machines, satisfying the first requirement. Azure Blob Storage with the Archive access tier offers the most cost-effective solution for data stored for at least 180 days that is rarely accessed, satisfying the second requirement as it supports retrieval times of several hours through rehydration.
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Azure Files provides managed SMB/NFS file shares, while Azure Blob Storage offers multiple access tiers including the low-cost, offline Archive tier for rarely accessed data that requires rehydration before use.