File Server Management Console; Storage Manager For Sans; Single Instance Storage; Hp Storage Server Management Console, Dfs Management - HP ProLiant DL100 G2 Administration Manual

Figure 12 HP Storage Server Management Console, DFS Management
For more information on DFS, refer to the online Help. A Microsoft document titled Overview of the
Distributed File System Solution in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 is available for download
at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5E547C69-D224-4423-8EAC-
18D5883E7BC2&displaylang=en. This document describes the benefits, features, and requirements of
the Distributed File System solution in Windows Server 2003 R2.

File Server Management Console

The File Server Management (FSM) snap-in provides a centralized tool for managing your file server. A
file server provides a central location on your network where you can store and share files with users
across your network. Using the FSM snap-in, you can perform many file server management tasks, such
as formatting volumes, creating shares, defragmenting volumes, creating and managing shares, setting
quota limits, creating storage utilization reports, replicating data to and from the file server, managing
Storage Area Networks (SANs), and sharing files with UNIX and Macintosh systems.

Storage Manager for SANs

The Storage Manager for SANs (also called Simple SAN) snap-in enables you to create and manage 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
titled Storage Management in Windows Storage Server 2003 R2: File Server Resource Manager and
Storage Manager for Storage Area Networks is available at
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
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