HP ProLiant SB460c HP ProLiant SB460c SAN Gateway Storage Server user guide (A - Page 23
File server management, File services features in Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
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2 File server management This chapter begins by identifying 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. 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 more information on Storage Manager for SANs, see 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. NOTE: Storage Manager for SANs is only available on Standard and Enterprise editions of Windows Storage Server 2003 R2. Single Instance Storage 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. 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 File Server Resource Manager, HP ProLiant SB460c SAN Gateway Storage Server 23