Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
The Distributed File System
To improve the reliability and availability of file shares in an enterprise network, Microsoft has developed the Distributed File System (DFS). DFS improves file share availability by providing a single, unified namespace to access shared folders hosted across one or more servers. A user needs to only remember a single server or domain name and share name to connect to a DFS shared folder.
DFS has many benefits and features that can simplify data access and management from both the administrator and end-user perspective. DFS provides four main functions:
• Unified namespace—DFS data is located under a single server name or a single domain name.
• Data redundancy—DFS can provide access to a single share that is hosted ...
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