Network Appliance NS0-604 Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 7

To enhance the performance when tiering data from NetApp ONTAP clusters to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, the following best practices should be considered:

Establish a VNet service endpoint to Azure storage (A): This ensures secure and optimized access to Azure Blob storage directly from the ONTAP cluster, minimizing latency.

Create an Azure ExpressRoute connection (B): ExpressRoute provides a dedicated, high-performance connection between the on-premises ONTAP clusters and Azure Blob storage, reducing latency and increasing throughput.

While choosing the IPspace (C) is important for network configuration, it doesn't directly enhance performance for cloud-tiering. An HTTPS connection over port 443 (D) is for secure data transfer but isn't specifically performance-enhancing.

For migrating an existing SQL database to the cloud while enabling independent scaling of storage and compute, Azure NetApp Files is the best solution. Azure NetApp Files provides high-performance file storage, and it allows users to independently scale storage capacity and compute resources based on the needs of the workload, including databases like SQL.

Other options like NetApp Cloud Volumes Service (B) and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (C) offer similar capabilities but are not native to Azure. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (D) is an AWS-specific service and does not fit with Azure cloud plans.