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Date
Overview of File Services in Windows Server
2008 R2
Distributed Access to Files
Centralized management of data across
platforms
Scalability, increased productivity
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Manage large, complex
storage infrastructures
Implement efficient use and
effective compliance of
storage systems
IT departments
need to…
Enforce corporate
policies
Provide users with fast,
efficient access to files
Ensure that costs don’t
spiral out of control
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Addressing file server challenges with…
Distributed access
to files
Better access to files
Efficient use of storage for
file services
Non-Windows platforms
access Windows File
services
Faster, more efficient file
operations
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Centralized management
of data across platforms
Simplified data access
Improved compliance and
control
Enhanced management
Optimized bandwidth
File management based
on policies, classification,
or location
Scalability, increased
productivity
Improve productivity, data
availability
Better tools to plan growth
Enhanced collaboration
with non-Windows clients
Flexibility, compatibility with
SMB2.x
Extensible File
Classification Infrastructure
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Better access to files
Many organizations have hundreds
of file servers
\\Contoso
Shared files often distributed across
a WAN
\Office Documents
\User data
Managing file infrastructure
becomes an IT challenge – and
space, money, time is wasted
\Software
\Videos
\Resource Files
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DFS can help organizations
manage their file infrastructure
more efficiently and easily
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Efficient use of storage for file services
FSRM
Better monitoring,
alerts, services for
remote storage
Lower costs with
existing hardware,
reduced time
Better information –
Tighter controls, more
efficient use of time
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Non-Windows access to Windows File services
NFS lets administrators push file-service specific admin
requirements onto Windows-based servers
Rather than recreating or maintaining wholly separate file
protection, admins can remove these components, simplify
their management.
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Pre-Vista
Vista
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Open Dir
Open Dir
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Query Dir
?OResponse
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Query Dir
Volume
Query
Close Dir
OResponse
OResponse
Query Dir
Close Dir
Satisfied from
OResponse
SMB2
client
cache
? Write Request
Write Response
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SMB2 compresses file operations
into more efficient packets,
minimizes time required to
complete file operations
OResponse
Query Volume
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Query Volume
Faster, more efficient
file operations
Improved packet security
processing
Feature implementation less prone
to error
Improvements help end-user
productivity
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
File management based
on policies, not location
File management by policy helps
drive efficiencies of file classification
IT can support categories of files
across the file servers regardless of
physical location
Emphasis now on business-critical
nature of the data – not on simply
storing files
Automatically apply corporate
requirements for managing data
based on business value
Easily modify policies, introduce new
tools to support classification in order
to manage their files
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Distributed File System
Distributed File
System (DFS)
offers storage
management
platform to meet
challenges faced
by users
DFS
DFS provides
uniform naming
convention and
mapping for
collections of
servers, shares,
and files
Platform for management
of shares and file
infrastructures
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Improved compliance and
control
Quota management, file
screening can help restrict
unproductive data (e.g.
undesirable filetypes &
executables) from being
stored on file servers
Server’s availability
enhanced
Tighter control improves
ability to maintain
compliance requirements
for data storage
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Enhanced management through reporting
Windows Server 2008 provides better controls to keep unwanted
data out
Includes tools to better manage vital data
Migration, policy enforcement technologies enable better resource
management and ability to plan for growth within
non-Microsoft segments of organization
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Optimized bandwidth
Open Dir
Query Dir
Query Volume
OResponse
More resiliency to network
connectivity issues = less
bandwidth being consumed
Close Dir
Query Dir
Query Volume
SMB2 requires fewer
communications across the
network
Satisfied from
SMB2 client
cache
Use SMB2 to assign quality of
assurance measures to give higher
priority to resources needing them
the most
Bandwidth used less – and
more efficiently
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
File management based on
classification
Files in File Servers can be
more intelligently protected and
managed based upon existing
business taxonomy
File data aligns to business
value classifications
More protection for business
critical files
Auto expiration of non-essential
data saves time, resources
Tight integration with
SharePoint Services
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
File virtualization up to 60,000 links via
DFS-N engine (R2)
• 12x environments
264 users files and shares supported
• 2x environments
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10x file access throughput (SMB2.0)
4x Concurrent File downloads (DFS-R)
30% reduction in bandwidth utilization
2x node clusters (16)
Network load balance (IPv6 support)
• Provides 10x significant
performance
• Supports double the number of
users, files and shares
• Faster disk I/O in clustered
setups (support of GPT disks)
When compared to Windows 2003
Improve productivity, data availability
Businesses need to ensure maximum access to information, ability
to share information
DFS helps accomplish this by maximizing
data availability
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Better tools to plan growth
File Server Resource
Management (FSRM) provides
better controls to keep
unwanted data out
Enhanced tools to help manage
data that you want in
Reporting and ability to set
enforceable, network storage
policies enable planning for
future growth, reduced TCO
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Enhanced collaboration with non-Windows clients
Leveraging Windows file services through NFS can enhance data
availability and reliability for non-Microsoft clients
User’s unstructured data will have access to Windows Server
protection technologies (DFS Replication, Volume Shadow Copy)
and storage technologies (File Services Resource Manager)
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Protocol compatibility
SMB2 no longer depends on dialectspecific code to function properly
SMB2
Error free, easy support.
Efficiency
Protocol streamlined, requiring fewer
local resources to process, more
flexibility for future development
Increased compatibility = protocol
is easier to support and less
prone to error
Scale
New code structure allows the
protocol to scale better
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
File Classification
Infrastructure
ISV Partner
Extensible infrastructure
Windows File Classification Infrastructure lets ISVs build rich solutions
for classifying files and applying policy based on classification
Infrastructure helps bridge between different ISV offerings – products
that classify files can work with products that consume the file
classification
IT can build in-house solutions to plug into Classification
Infrastructure and interoperate with ISV
product offerings
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Better access to data
DFS Namespaces and Replication can help manage file infrastructure much more
efficiently and easily; only changes made to a file are replicated across WAN, so
more efficient WAN usage; Centralized remote branch data backups with DFS
replication; simplified management of DFS Replication and DFS Namespaces
with “DFS Management” MMC snap-in; Scalable, reliable, multi-master replication
solution
Simplified access to files
High availability using DFS Replication; ease of data access with Namespace
virtualization; local access for users without crossing WAN; easy to publish
content to branch locations; pre-stage new servers
Increased productivity and data availability
Spread file servers out across groups of file server hardware nodes; centralize IT
tasks from a remote branches; structure data sets so different teams can access
overall corporate data
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Let non-Windows clients access Windows File Services
Use Services for NFS to enable computers running Windows Server 2008 to
access UNIX file resources when the file servers are running NFS software; run
Services for NFS on 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2008; use NFS to extend
mixed environment file services and make it possible to gain the benefits of DFS
Replication
Increase productivity
Supports mixed environments with file & block services that support crossplatform communications; enable UNIX-based client computers to access
Windows resources
Enhance management capabilities
NFS provides access to reporting functionality in FSRM so managers can better
plan and strategize for future growth needs, as well as better manage existing
usage for segments of their network; IT can set quotas for storage usage
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Faster, more efficient
SMB2 uses credit system for negotiating between clients and servers for better
managed client-side requests; servers grant credits to clients based on workload
requirement; pipelined read/writes let SMB2 to queue larger file requests and then
take advantage of available connections
Optimize network bandwidth
Better manage number of outstanding requests at any one time; improvements to
packet headers allows multiple, unrelated commands to be rolled-up into one
packet; new commands require fewer communications back-and-forth across
network
Greater flexibility, compatibility
SMB2 provides way to limit the number of open connections a client can open so
protocol can effectively scale with increasing client requests; enhanced header
and command structure helps simplify client/server negotiations and produces a
more stable environment for sessions
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Efficient use of storage for file services
Provides reporting for Least Accessed Files and Duplicate Files;
automates quota assignments; easy to use
Improved compliance and control
Enhanced security with file screening; minimized storage abuse;
reduced time spent managing file services
Better planning tools
FSRM reporting functions enable better planning and strategizing for
future growth; storage policies allow for clearer standards and greater
user awareness of usage; FSRM can help IT reduce spending on
new file server hardware and personnel needed to maintain that
hardware
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FSRM
DFS
FCI
NFS
SMB2
Automate business processes
Classification enables manual processes used in business to be automated,
allowing for file management based on corporate requirements; easily classify
files based on location; apply data management policies based on file
classification; apply classification taxonomy across all Microsoft file stores,
including SharePoint, Windows File Servers
Built-in file management
Out of the box, administrators can classify files so that the files in File Servers can
be more intelligently protected and managed based upon existing business
taxonomy
Leverage rich partner ecosystem
FCI is a platform for the development of extensible end-to-end solutions; partners
and/or IT administrators can build functionality to apply policy based on
properties; 3rd party ISVs can leverage file classification technologies to build
data management solutions
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