DFS gives you the ability to swap things around in the background without user impact, as well as replicate things without much work.
It's abstraction of the user experience from the backend infrastructure. Just like other well established protocols. You wouldn't do without DNS would you? Cheers Ken From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2010 11:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: File Server Migration to VM I will look it to DFS some more. But I only have two file servers, I don't plan on consolidating them and don't plan on any more for a long time. ________________________________ From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: File Server Migration to VM You really need to learn DFS. It's not complex, but will make your life much easier. If you have no legacy problems with your current setup, I'd consider P2V-ing your current setup (to preserve all the current settings) and then transition to DFS. That would enable you to add in Win2k8 R2 servers at your leisure down the track. If you do it all in one big-bang, you need to have all the security migration nailed-down on migration day. Cheers Ken ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
