File System Management and Fault Tolerance

Contents Windows Server 2008 R2 Disks Utilizing External Disk Subsystems Managing Windows Server 2008 R2 Disks System File Reliability Adding the File Services Role Managing Data Access Using Windows Server 2008 R2 Shares Volume-Based NTFS Quota Management File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) Distributed File System Planning a DFS Deployment Installing DFS Managing and Troubleshooting DFS Backing Up DFS Using Volume Shadow Copy Service

File System Management Tools

Concepts GUID Partition Table (GPT) Disk Dynamic Disk extend Windows disk functionality when managing multiple disks

Concepts- basic disk supports only simple volumes OR volumes that exist on a single disk &partition within Windows. contain no fault tolerance

Concepts- dynamic disk extend Windows disk functionality when managing multiple disks host volumes that span multiple partitions and disks within a single system. Build fault-tolerant & RAID

Managing Windows Server 2008 R2 Disks Disk Management MMC Snap-In Diskpart.exe Command-Line Utility

Adding a New Disk to Windows

Converting Basic Disks to Dynamic Disks

Creating Fault-Tolerant Volumes

Creating a Fault-Tolerant Volume Using Diskpart.exe

Adding File Services Role

Managing Data Access Using Windows Server share

Managing Folder Shares Share and Storage Management console located in Server Manager

Volume-Based NTFS Quota Manage

File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) Setting limits on storage Providing storage limit flexibility of group data Enforcing storage policy File screen policy File classification

Installing FSRM Tools

Config Quotas with File Server Resource Manager

Create a Quota Template

Distributed File System Data redundancy Automated data replication Distributed data consolidation

DFS Namespaces namespace allows connections to automatically be redirected to different servers without user knowledge Example a client connects to the domain DFS namespace \\Companyabc.com\Apps, client will be redirected to \\Server10\Apps,  client will be unaware of this redirection

DFS-compatible clients

Planning a DFS Deployment Configuring File Share and NTFS Permissions for DFS Root & Folder Targets Choosing a DFS Type Standalone DFS Namespace name of server that hosts the root target and the share. Domain-Based DFS Namespace Windows 2008 Mode for Domain-based DFS Namespace

Planning a DFS Deployment Planning for DFS Replication Initial Master Staging Folder

Installing DFS Need “Adding File Services Role” DFS role services are selected “Adding File Services Role” Select Role Services page, select Distributed File System, DFS Namespaces, and DFS Replication

Create DFS Namespace &Root

Add Additional Namespace Server to Domain-Based Namespace

Create a DFS Folder and Replication Group

ensure that replication occurs as expected Start with empty DFS namespace folders & targets to keep from having to replicate any data at root level Do not replicate data between DFS namespace shares Back up at least 1 DFS folder target and config backup to not update archive bit Thoroughly test server OS antivirus progs to ensure that no adverse effects are caused by scanning of files on a replicated DFS target. Verify that drive that will contain staging folder for a replication connection contains ample space to accept amount of replicated data sent and received by server.

Config DFS Read-Only Replication In Replicate Folder Wizard: select No Topology option button on Topology Selection page. select replication group in tree pane in tasks pane select Memberships tab Right-click desired Replicated Folder member & select Make Readonly

Managing and Troubleshooting DFS