Hello,
Bringing a new AD/File Services system into production (2008 R2 Enterprise). I currently have 5 file servers, all with a single data volume provided by our SAN. Planning to use a domain DFS Namespace (no DFS replication) to provide access. Two questions:
1. Does anyone see any problem with creating a DFS Root Namespace on the SAN volume (the same volume housing the data)? I'd rather not create it on C:\, as it is much easier to strip away the permissions on a data volume.
2. Do I need to install the DFS Namespaces role on each server that will be a Namespace Server? For example, I install the DFS Namespaces role on fs01 and create my namespace. I then want to add fs02 as a Namespace server... do I need to install the role on fs02 before I attempt to add it as a namespace server?
Thanks,
Dasani