Gotcha. I was going to recommend presenting separate physical disks for the home folders and shared folders, but you're probably configuring a single RAID on each server for storing all of the data, and then partitioning that for the home folders and shared folders?
I hope that works for you. We had bad luck with DFS on Windows 2003 R2 when we tried to use it for Home Directories and Roaming profiles. We had two sites, with two servers in each site. We tried to configure referral ordering so that users logging into resources in one site, would be directed to the primary DFS member in that site, and then the seconday if the primary was unavailable, and then the alternate site secondary if both servers in the primary site were unavailable. However, there were too many scenarios where a user could be directed to resources from the alternate site which caused all sorts of issues with replication and user experience. Not to mention other "ghosts in the machine" that we could just never pinpoint. After several months of troubleshooting with Microsoft, they finally fell back on their statement that DFS was not intended for Roaming Profile environments and that they could no longer support our configuration. It sounds like you're setting up a much simpler and logical environment though :) - Sean On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]>wrote: > Two servers. Running DFS on them and I have the target priority set so > one will always be the primary…and the other will be a hot backup. In > theory, but so far the theory is working in testing. 2008 R2 for the OS > although that can certainly be changed, our edu license with MS is pretty > cool. I looked at storage server also, but it didn’t really bring much to > the party. > > > > *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 22, 2011 12:52 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Qutoa's for home folders. > > > > What is your storage solution? Is this just a new server with more storage, > direct attach, NAS/SAN? > > > > - Sean > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Kennedy, Jim < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Yep, can certainly do it that way…and that is on my list of possible > solutions. Not seeing anything third party that will fill the need either. I > just hate to pigeon hole myself and get the partition size wrong. I will > need to reserve some space and make them dynamic. > > > > *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 22, 2011 11:02 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Qutoa's for home folders. > > > > If you're building the new storage for this environment, can you create > separate partitions for the home folders and for the shared folders? That > way disk quotas might be an option. > > > > - Sean > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Kennedy, Jim < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I am building new file storage, as you may recall from my previous > DFS/Cluster questions. > > > > I am pondering the easiest way to do storage quotas. I will end up with 600 > people in one folder. A handful of users will get larger quota’s. > > > > FSRM looked good until I got into the details. I can auto populate the > root of the HomeFolderShare and hit everyone with the same quota. But trying > to then drill to a specific user and raise their quota it won’t let me as it > already has a quota on it from the root. What I need is ‘block inheritance’ > on quota’s. I don’t want to go back to disk quota’s because there are shared > folders on the same disk and I don’t want the use of those to count against > the user’s quota. > > > > Any ideas? 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