HP ProLiant ML350 G5 Storage Server Administration Guide (5697-5854, September 2006)

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HP Storag e Ser ver Managemen t Console, DFS Man a g em ent

For more i

nformation on DFS, refer to the online help. A Microsoft do cument titled Overview of the

Distributed File S ystem Solution in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 is available for download

at h

ttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de tails.aspx?familyid=5E547C69-D224-4423-8EAC-

18D5883

E7BC2&displaylang=en. This document describes the beneﬁts, features, and requirements of

the Distributed File System solution in Windows 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 b e used on

SANs that support Virtual Disk Server (VDS). It can b e 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 h

ttp://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/7/

7472 bf9b-3023-48b7-87be-d2cedc38f15a/WS03R2_Storage_Man agement.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 sha red 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 tog ether.

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

File server management