Hi,I am a total newbie in Netapp and would like to get your suggestions on this.I would like to know if DFS can be done with Netapp FAS2220, with 2 servers, sharing the Netapp device with DFS. There will not be any data replication to another device/drive, but wanted to get a redundant link for the users even if one server fails as the second server is also sharing the netapp device. Netapp will have a replica of the data on another location, so that part is covered i guess.

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Is this the right way to do this? Also, do you guys suggest iSCSI or any other options? Ambarishrh wrote:Hi,I am a total newbie in Netapp and would like to get your suggestions on this.I would like to know if DFS can be done with Netapp FAS2220, with 2 servers, sharing the Netapp device with DFS. There will not be any data replication to another device/drive, but wanted to get a redundant link for the users even if one server fails as the second server is also sharing the netapp device.

Netapp will have a replica of the data on another location, so that part is covered i guess. Is this the right way to do this? Also, do you guys suggest iSCSI or any other options?Not sure why do you want DFS as a replication solution here. Mirror LUNs between NetApp boxes. DFS does not provide automatic failover if content is read or written. I think I will go with Netapp file sharing option and then the data will be mirrored to another Netapp box outside the office as an offsite backup options.

Thanks guys for pointing me to the right direction.The egnyte option seems to be very good, but for now will just use another Netapp for backup.By the way, what management options does Netapp provides as in file server function? Apart from file sharing, I wanted to install a monitoring solution on the file server to monitor file changes like accidental deletion/moving folders. I undertstand that this could be easily recovered from backup but would be better to know on whats happening with the files. Does Netapp has some inbuilt tools for this?

I was thinking about Netwrix, and seems like they have support for Netapp as well. Ambarishrh wrote:I think I will go with Netapp file sharing option and then the data will be mirrored to another Netapp box outside the office as an offsite backup options.

Thanks guys for pointing me to the right direction.The egnyte option seems to be very good, but for now will just use another Netapp for backup.By the way, what management options does Netapp provides as in file server function? Apart from file sharing, I wanted to install a monitoring solution on the file server to monitor file changes like accidental deletion/moving folders. I undertstand that this could be easily recovered from backup but would be better to know on whats happening with the files.

Does Netapp has some inbuilt tools for this? I was thinking about Netwrix, and seems like they have support for Netapp as well.Yes, I confirm, NetWrix does support NetApp Filer for auditing of file access (deletion, moving, reading, renaming, changing permissions etc).

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Published:While the Distributed File System (DFS) has been around since the days of Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft has made numerous improvements to DFS in Windows Server 2003 R2 that make it a much more attractive feature for Windows system administrators. In particular, there have been several major improvements in the area of replication and file availability that can make DFS an ideal solution for low-bandwidth branch office environments. In a series of articles, I'll discuss the nuts-and-bolts of DFS, particularly the new enhancements that you'll find in R2, and how you can implement it to meet the ever-increasing storage needs of your organization. The original intent of DFS was to make file access across multiple file servers more transparent to the end users in your organization. Let's consider a typical small network environment that contains three file servers named FS1, FS2 and FS3, containing the following file shares:.

FS1. FS1accounting. FS1marketing. FS1training. FS2. FS2hr.

FS2payroll. FS3. FS3systems. FS3productionIn this environment, users who required access to both the Accounting and the Payroll share (or even two shares on the same server) would need to maintain and remember two separate connections, either by manually specifying the UNC path of each share or by mapping two separate drive letters within a logon script.

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This can become quite clumsy for users who need access to many different file shares, particularly if the locations of those shares need to change over time. For example, if the FS3 file share is running out of space and you need to move the Systems share to the new FS4 server, you would need to communicate this change to your users or modify the necessary logon scripts.You can improve this situation by deploying the Distributed File Service, which can create a unified logical namespace across multiple physical file servers. In our current example, by deploying DFS, you can create a single DFS root that can then reference multiple file shares underneath it. A DFS root takes the format of. For example, within the company.com domain, we can create a domain DFS root called company.comshared. We can then create DFS links to the shares stored on the three physical servers, as follows:. company.comshared.

company.comsharedAccounting. company.comsharedMarketing.

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company.comsharedTraining. company.comsharedHR. company.comsharedPayroll. company.comsharedSystems. company.comsharedProductionAs you can see, this greatly simplifies the view of shared folders on your network for your users; they can specify a single UNC name to access all of the shares configured beneath it, or have a single drive letter mapped within a logon script.

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If the Systems share needs to be moved from one physical server to another, its DFS link will remain the same regardless of its new physical location. This provides incredible flexibility in serving up shared files to your users, since you're no longer tied to a file or folder's physical location when providing access to it.About the author: Laura E. Hunter (CISSP, MCSE: Security, MCDBA, Microsoft MVP) is a senior IT specialist with the University of Pennsylvania where she provides network planning, implementation and troubleshooting services for business units and schools within the university. Hunter is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Microsoft 'Most Valuable Professional' award in the area of Windows Server-Networking. She is the author of the Active Directory Field Guide (APress Publishing).More information on this topic:. Tip:.

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