File Server Management; New Or Improved File Services Features In Windows Storage Server 2003 R2; Storage Manager For Sans; Single Instance Storage - HP ProLiant ML310 User Manual

3 File server management

This chapter begins by identifying new or improved file services in Windows Storage Server 2003 R2. The
remainder of the chapter describes the many tasks and utilities that play a role in file server management.
New or improved file services features in Windows Storage
Server 2003 R2

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
7472bf9b-3023-48b7-87be-d2cedc38f15a/WS03R2_Storage_Management.doc.
NOTE:
Storage Manager for SANs is only available on Standard and Enterprise editions of Windows Storage
Server 2003 R2.

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.
NOTE:
Single Instance Storage is only available on Standard and Enterprise editions of Windows Storage
Server 2003 R2.

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 Server was not entirely up-to-date, the client-side search
engine needed to "walk through" all the files within the scope of the search on the server. With the
performance tuning in R2, the Indexing service no longer needs to be entirely up-to-date.

File Server Resource Manager

File Server Resource Manager is a suite of tools that allows administrators to understand, control,
and manage the quantity and type of data stored on their servers. By using Storage Resource
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