You plan to deploy Microsoft SQL Server on a Microsoft Azure Virtual machine. The virtual machine will have a 30-TB database and will have 10 1-TB VHDs for the database.

You need to configure the storage to meet the following requirements:

• Evenly distribute read and write operations across the VHDs.
• Minimize the read and write time.

Which storage configuration should you use?

A. a parity storage pool

B. a simple storage pool

C. a mirrored storage pool

D. a striped volume

E. a RAID-5 volume

Explanation:

Data that is written to a striped volume is interleaved to all disks at the same time instead of sequentially. Therefore, disk performance is the fastest on a RAID 0 volume as compared to any other type of disk configuration.

Reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/323433/how-to-establish-a-striped-volume-raid-0-in-windows-server-2003