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HP Stora ge Server Managem e nt Con sole, DFS Managemen t
For more i
nformation on DFS, refer to the online help. A Microsoft do cument titled Overview of the
Distributed File Sy stem Solution in Microsoft Window s Server 2003 R2 is available for download
at h
ttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5E547C69-D224-4423-8EAC-
18D5883
E7BC2&displaylang=en. This document describes the benefits, features, and requirements of
the D istributed File System solution in Windows Server 2003 R2.
Storage Manager for SANs
The Storage M anager for SANs (also called Simple SAN) snap-in enables you to create and mana ge the
LUNs that are used to allocate space on storage arrays. Storage Manager for SANs can be used on
SANs that support Virtual Disk Server (VDS). It can be used in both Fibre Channel and iSCSI environments.
For more information on Storage Manager for SANs, refer to the online help. A Microsoft document title d
Storage Management in Windows Storage Server 2003 R2: File Server Resource Manager and Storage
Manager for Storage Area Networks is available at h
ttp://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/7/
7472bf9b-3023-48b7-87be-d2cedc38f15a/WS03R2_Storage_Management.doc.
Single Instance Storage
Single Instance Storage (SIS) provides a copy-on-write link between multiple files. Disk space is recovered
by reducing the amount of redundant data stored on a server. If a user has two files sharing disk storage
by using SIS, and someone modifies one of the files, users of the other files do not see the changes. The
underlying shared disk storage that backs SIS links is maintained by the system and is only deleted if
all the SIS links pointing to it are deleted. SIS automatically determines that two or more files have the
same content and links them together.
Search enhancements
The Indexing service is tuned for additional indexing and query performance. Prior to the R2 release, if
the Indexing service on a Windows Storage Ser ver was not entirely up-to-date, the client-side search
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