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You can move seldom-used files to offline storage, but in Windows 2000, you have another option when server hard drives begin to fill up: you can build a Distributed File System (DFS) tree.
By Gary Olsen 02/22/2011 Distributed File System (DFS) has been around since Windows NT and comes in a variety of configurations and options.
A key feature in Windows 2000 Server is DFS, short for Distributed File System. DFS is handy because it lets you point all network drives, no matter what server they physically occupy, to a single ...
PeerGFS enables a distributed file system to be created across mixed storage systems that include Windows, NetApp Data ONTAP, DellEMC Isilon/VNX/Unity, Nutanix Files, S3, and Azure Blob, with ...
1 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage by Chandra Mukhyala, Julia Palmer, Jeff Vogel. Published Nov. 2, 2023 Gartner Disclaimer ...
DFS used the problematic File Replication Service (FRS) for the replication engine. But, in Windows 2003 R2, Microsoft introduced a new DFS namespace product along with a much-improved replication ...