Question 1

You are designing the storage architecture for a mission-critical SAP HANA deployment on Azure Virtual Machines.

The database requires shared file storage that supports the NFS v4.1 protocol, sub-millisecond latency, and extremely high throughput (up to 4,500 MiB/s). The solution must be a fully managed service.

Which storage solution should you recommend?

Accepted Answer

Keywords: 'SAP HANA', 'NFS v4.1', 'sub-millisecond latency', 'shared file storage'. This is the exact use case for Azure NetApp Files.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this AZ-305 question?

Accepted Answer

Choosing Ultra Disks. While Ultra Disks meet the performance requirements, they are block storage, not the requested shared file storage (NFS).

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