Storage - Aberdeen AberNAS 120 Manual

Storage

Managing Storage Devices
Management and configuration of the storage disks (both physical and logical) is under control of the
Virtual Disk Service (VDS). (See "New Features" for more information.) Allocation of disk space to
users is performed through quotas, and can be managed through a user interface.
The Enterprise Edition of Windows Storage Server 2003 supports the Automated Deployment Service
(ADS) as an optional add-on. ADS is a scriptable service enabling rapid and highly effective
deployment of large numbers of new servers.
Table 5. Disk and Deployment Management Capabilities in Windows Storage Server 2003
Disk Management
Virtual Disk Service (VDS)
Quota Management
Automated Deployment
Services (ADS)
Ensuring Availability of Stored Data
A number of existing technologies have been enhanced and a number of new features have been
added to Windows Storage Server 2003 to help keep a business's data highly available. These
technologies range from tools to ensure hardware components are operating effectively and at high
performance, to technologies enabling hardware (MPIO) and software (clustering) redundancy, to
data availability techniques for redundancy (VSS and RAID) and high performance (RAID—redundant
array of inexpensive disks).
Additional Information
Includes sample code for volume management
Enables administrators to limit the storage accessible by each user.
Enterprise Edition only. ADS enables administrators to perform script
based administration of large scale deployments of Windows servers.
ADS replaces Multi-Device Manager (MDM) in WP NAS 2.0.
Microsoft® Windows Storage Server 2003 White Paper