: # of files on Windows server, is 4 million too many?
Going along the same lines, when do you start to worry about the number of
concurrent client connections to said SAN attached to a 2008 R2 server, simple
document connections
From: Michael B. Smith
than
Windows?
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From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 6:00 AM
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Subject: RE: # of files on Windows server, is 4 million too many?
When performance starts to suffer? :-)
Regards,
Michael B
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Subject: Re: # of files on Windows server, is 4 million too many?
I've got a virtualized Win2k3 R2 fully patched server on ESX 3.5 - the OS
partition is on the ESX box.
The data drives are spread across 4 SAN LUNs, (3 Lefthand units with two-way
replication and I'm
: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 9:45 AM
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Subject: RE: # of files on Windows server, is 4 million too many?
So, to fix this, you could:
-create more volumes and split the load between the drive, which is limited
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Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 9:08 AM
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Subject: RE: # of files on Windows server, is 4 million too many?
Limitations according to drive letters went away years ago. Now we have mount
points, just like UNIX. :-)
The issue isn't the operating system, the issue
: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: 06 September 2011 21:01
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: # of files on Windows server, is 4 million too many?
I've got a virtualized Win2k3 R2 fully patched server on ESX 3.5 - the OS
partition is on the ESX box.
The data drives
Here's the results from a single logical (SAN) drive on one of our file servers:
Total Files Listed:
4661023 File(s) 681,427,607,680 bytes
On this logical drive are our primary shares for users and shared data, but if
no single folder has more than 2000 files does it matter? I'm
What OS, btw?
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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:15 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Here’s the results from a single logical (SAN) drive on one of our file
servers:
Total Files
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From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 1:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: # of files on Windows server, is 4 million too many?
Here's the results from a single logical (SAN) drive on one of our file
servers:
Total Files Listed
2003 Server, 32-bit
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 10:32 AM
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What OS, btw?
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Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:15 PM
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Subject: Re: # of files on Windows server, is 4 million too many?
Damn...then I'm in trouble! One Win 2K server currently has
7,981,328 files at 60GB
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:38 PM, David Lum
david
, 2011 11:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: # of files on Windows server, is 4 million too many?
I have a customer with a 2003 server that has a couple million files in a
single folder. I didn't say it didn't work. I said it wasn't performant. And I
stand by that. :)
Regards,
Michael
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Feeling like a n00b asking that one.
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Dave
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*Sent:* Tuesday, September 06, 2011 11:19 AM
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I have a customer
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Subject: RE: # of files on Windows server, is 4 million too many?
Would there be any worthwhile gains to attach this SAN drive to a 2008 R2
server vs. 2003 32-bit? Enumeration is about the only time raw number of files
matter, right?
Feeling like a n00b asking that one.
Dave
From
, 2011 6:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: # of files on Windows server, is 4 million too many?
No, it matters in file open and file extension as well – but not to as great a
degree.
2008 R2 doesn’t improve this to any degree EXCEPT that the Server service no
longer has any limit
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Here’s
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