Well this is
not 100% complete. With the use of VFM, you can create a filer hosted DFS
root. Let me see if I can clear up a few things.
By using VFM
and a “Namespace Availability” policy, you can replicate a Stand-Alone (server
based) DFS root to a filer and thus create another Stand-Alone based root.
What is generated on the filer, as Adam mentioned, are widelinks that would correspond
to the DFS targets required.
Now, this does
require at least one windows server to host the original DFS root and to make
namespace updates. However, with the use of the availability policy, the
changes can be updated every ‘x’ minutes.
AC
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
[mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Mery
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 11:33
To: Mike Partyka
Cc: owner-toasters@mathworks.com; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft DFS participation and Virtual File Manager
The answer you
got from NetApp is part right and part wrong. It's correct in that a
filer cannot host a DFS root. It also cannot do some of the cooler DFS
features like DFS-R (DFS Replication) with 2003 R2 systems. However, it's
also incorrect because a filer *can* participate in DFS as a target device to
which DFS links.
As an example,
I can create a domain-based DFS root and point links within that root at my
filer with no problems.
IIRC - VFM
doesn't replace DFS, but acts more as a "manager" of DFS and gives
you some extra features from a management perspective, but you're still
required to implement DFS for VFM to work. It's been a while since we've
looked at VFM so the details are a bit fuzzy.
Jeff Mery - MCSE, MCP
National Instruments
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Mike
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Hello All,
I’ve seen some posts recently talking about using the filer to participate in a
DFS schema. I asked NetApp support if a filer could participate in MS DFS and
was told no, and referred to Virtual File Manager which seems to replace the
DFS schema not allow the filer to participate. What is required from a NetApp
storage perspective to participate in MS DFS? Also does anyone have familiarity
with VFM and whether if has any advantages over VFM?
Thx
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