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3 File server mana gem ent

This chapter begins by identifying new or improved ﬁle services in Windows Storage Server 2003 R2. The

remainder of the chapter describes the many tasks and utilities that play a role in ﬁle server management.

New or i mprove

d ﬁle services features in Windows Storage

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 be used on

SANs that support Virtual Disk Server (VDS). It can be used in both Fibre Channel and iSCSI environments.

For m ore 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 Storag e Area Networks is available at h

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

7472bf9b-3023-48b7-87be-d2ced c38f15a /WS03R2_Storage_Management.doc.

NOTE:

Storage Manager for SANs is only available on Standard and Enterprise editions of Windows Storage

Server 2003 R2.

Single Instance Storag e

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 shared 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 together.

NOTE:

Single Instance Storage is only available on Standard and Enterprise editions of Windows Storage

Server 2003 R2.

Search enhancements

The Ind

exing service is tuned for additional indexing and quer y 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

engine needed to “walk through” all the ﬁles within the scope of the search on the server. With the

performance tuning in R2, the Indexing service no longer needs to be entirely up-to-date.

File Server Resource Manager

File Server Resource Manager is a suite of tools that allows administrators to understand, control,

and manage the quantity and type of data stored on their servers. By using Storage Resource

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