Administrator Guide

Windows editions Dell systems supported
Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2016,
Workgroup Edition, x64
NX430
Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2016,
Standard Edition, x64
NX3330 NX3230 NX430
Preinstalled roles and services congurations on your
system
Based on your organization requirements, server roles, role services, and features are preinstalled and congured on your system.
Roles and Role Services
Preinstalled roles and role services are:
File and Storage
Services
Manages le servers and storage.
File and iSCSI
Services
Manages le servers and storage, replicate and cache les, reduces disk space utilization, and shares les by using
NFS protocol.
File Server Manages shared folders and enables user to access les on the system from the network.
Data Deduplication Works at the volume level and stores mode data in less physical disk space. Data-Deduplication identies duplicate
data chunks and maintains a single copy of each chunk. A redundant copy replaces the reference to a single copy.
DFS Namespaces Groups shared folders on dierent servers in to one or more logically structured namespaces.
DFS Replication Synchronizes folders on multiple servers across Local-or Wide Area Network (WAN) connections.
File Server Resource
Manager (FSRM)
Manages les and folders on a le server by scheduling tasks and storage reports, classifying les, conguring
quotas, and dening le screening policies.
File Server VSS
Agent Service
Performs volume shadow copies of applications that store data les on le server.
iSCSI Target Server Provides services and management to the iSCSI targets.
iSCSI Target Storage
Provider (VDS and
VSS hardware
providers)
Enables applications on a server that is connected to an iSCSI target to perform volume shadow copies of data on
iSCSI virtual disks.
Server for NFS Shares les with UNIX-based systems and other systems that use the NFS protocol.
Work Folders Facilitates users to access their work les from various devices and keeps them synchronized whether users
access their les from inside the network or from across the Internet.
Storage Services Provides storage management functions.
Features
Preinstalled features are:
.NET Framework 3.5
(includes .NET 2.0
Uses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) activation service to invoke the applications remotely on the
network by using HTTP or TCP protocols.
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