December 2017
Beginner
386 pages
9h 16m
English
If you have ever wondered how to share data from your servers in an authorized and controlled way, then Distributed File System (DFS) will enable you to do so. With DFS, data that is stored in shared folders located on different servers can be grouped into logically structured namespaces. That makes it possible for users to access the data as if it was stored on local computers.
In Windows Server 2016, DFS is part of the File and Storage Services role. Thus, to install DFS on your server, you should expand the File and Storage Services role, expand File and iSCSI Services, and then select DFS Namespace, DFS Replication, and File Server Resource Manager, as shown in Figure 8.13:
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