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Jared
Asked: 2011-02-06 22:36:37 +0800 CST

DFSR - What happens when one server gets maxed out?

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What happens when one server in a DFSR pool maxes out its disk space?

I am at the very beginning of my research in DFS/R and this struck me. I plan on implementing this on one server with RAID1 (160GB) and on another server with a RAID5 (500GB). What happens when my 1st server with 160GB disks, run out of space? Will it spill over to the 500GB server?

Is it advisable at all to even have the RAID1 server in the DFSR pool? Because the RAID1 server is also my Domain Controller.

Hope you guys can help me out here (OS are Win2k3R2)

windows dfs-r windows-server-2003 storage

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  1. Best Answer

    We use DFSR on 2003 R2 between two remote sites, and it works very well.

    DFSR will obviously fail if one server runs out of disk space, but once you have allocated more disk space to resolve the problem DFSR will pick up where it left off.

    If you think that the 160Gb server might fill up, then you should be planning to increase the disk capacity now.

    The physical disk configuration (RAID) doesn't matter one bit.

    If by 'spill over' you are referring to the clients access the other server when the other runs out of disk space then the answer is no. The way a client picks a DFS target has no relationship to DFSR. You can configure DFSR without even having a DFS namespace (or vice versa).

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