Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Distributed File System Solution Overview

I. Introduction to DFS and FSRM

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Distributed File System Solution Overview

Here is the Microsoft TechNet on the DFS (Distributed file system advantages and characteristics), please be patient and careful to see the lunch, for you to build enterprise-level file server will be very helpful, but also need to be reminded that DFS is in the Windows 2003 R2 era has emerged in the product, The main building here is to share some of the 2008r2 above configuration.

Introduction to FSRM (File Server Resource Manager)

Here is the introduction of FSRM, we first understand what FSRM can help us do what, have what function.

The above homework for lunch we still need to do it first, because we are going to create a secure and fast file server environment by configuring management DFS+FSRM.

Second, File server Setup

Combined with our rookie collection in the first episode of the Contoso's domain environment, in this build we still use this domain environment, the difference is that we will be more than one file server, using DC and file server to do a DFS environment; Here are some lunch to pay attention to, in the real enterprise environment, DC is not recommended to do any other application services, I do this here, because the test environment is limited (poor point, look Haihan!). ):(bofu18): bofu18): "/>bofu18):"/> Good, start our construction link.

The first step, DFS+FSRM environment construction:

First enter our DC, open the Windows Server R2 Server Management Console (you can enter servermanager.msc directly in the run), select the role, select the file service

After clicking Next, select My features, the network System file service is to support the UNIX client can access our file server can not select; Windows Search service is designed to integrate with SharePoint and Windows searching, and basically few people are useful, Can not choose, the network file BranchCache feature can also be selected, this is integrated with the Windows 7 BranchCache feature, XP client is not available, more people want to know about the BranchCache feature can go to TechNet detailed review, This function is actually better, but a business intranet environment may not be used, you can not choose.

After clicking Next, you need to configure a DFS namespace, which you can understand as a name we go to access the file server, regardless of where our file servers are distributed, our Dfs can publish these files through our namespace name to the following user

Click Next to select a domain-based namespace because we want to integrate with the domain for security control

After clicking on the next step, you need to provide an account with permissions in the domain to create the DFS namespace, and we recommend using an account with administrator privileges in the domain

OK then click Next, here is to you to manage some of the shared locations under your space, save the defaults here, and then we'll do configuration management later

Configure disk monitoring After the next step, leave the default, do not monitor any disks, and configure later

Best click Install, wait for installation to complete!

The second step, DFS+FSRM management configuration:

After the installation, we continue to open the Server Management console, in our Server Management console we can see the file services related components we just installed in the server role

The first step we need to do is to add the shared resources of our file servers and then control the synchronization of shared resources through our DFS, monitor file server permissions through FSRM control, and upload downloads.

1, DFS Add shared resources: According to my 1, 2, 3 steps can be added to your local or other file servers in the domain shared resources

In this demo I also prepared another Windows Server 2003 machine joined the domain as a file server to use, I added a local shared resource and a shared resource on 2003 through DFS

After adding the shared resources, we test it by accessing it and see if we can see the resources we add when we access them through the namespace name.

We found that the resources we added are normally accessible through the namespace path, and the folder can be opened and the resource added successfully!

2. Dfs shared resource replication:

For the replication of Dfs, lunch can be found on our forum by Wang Chunhai Teacher's works: Network Management World---Web server application in-depth practice , not configured here in detail

3. FSRM manages shared resources:

Specific configuration locations are explained as:

Detailed FSRM

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Distributed File System Solution Overview