HP ProLiant DL100 G2 DPSS, Administration Manual

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Figure 12 HP Storage Server Management Console, DFS Management
For more information on DFS, refer to the online Help. A Microsoft document titled Overview of the
Distributed File System Solution in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 is available for download
at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5E547C69-D224-4423-8EAC-
18D5883E7BC2&displaylang=en . This document describes the bene fi ts, features, and requirements of
the Distributed File System solution in Windows Server 2003 R2.
File Server Management Console
The File Server Management (FSM) snap-in provides a centralized tool for managing your fi le server. A
fi le server provides a central location on your network where you can store and share fi les with users
across your network. Using the FSM snap-in, you can perform many fi le server management tasks, such
as formatting volumes, creating shares, defragmenting volumes, creating and managing shares, setting
quota limits, creating storage utilization reports, replicating data to and from the fi le server, managing
Storage Area Networks (SANs), and sharing fi les with UNIX and Macintosh systems.
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 http://download.microsoft.com/download/
7/4/7/7472bf9b-3023-48b7-87be-d2cedc38f15a/WS03R2_Storage_Management.doc .
Single Instance Storage
Single Instance Storage (SIS) provides a copy-on-write link between multiple fi les. Disk space is recovered
by reducing the amount of redundant data stored on a server. If a user has two fi les sharing disk storage
by using SIS, and someone modi fi es one of the fi les, users of the other fi les do not see the changes. The
underlying shared disk storage that backs SIS links is maintained by the system and is only deleted if
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File server management