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Using the FAS as fileserver will work much better than using a W2012 VM as fileserver. <br />
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Performance will be better and you get all Netapp features such as snapshotting and deduplication on your shares.
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Using the FAS as fileserver will work much better than using a W2012 VM as fileserver.

Performance will be better and you get all Netapp features such as snapshotting and deduplication on your shares.

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The new inline compression also does a good job, in conjunction with dedupe, it saves you a good bit on storage.
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The new inline compression also does a good job, in conjunction with dedupe, it saves you a good bit on storage.

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Hi Friends,<br />
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I am going to buy FAS2240-2 for storing my VMs. <br />
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can anyone pls advice if I can use the same box for hosting Fileserver to assign some shared network drives to my domain &amp;&nbsp;non-domain windows -7 users? so i will not have to host a separate Win2012 as a Fileserver to serve storage for users.<br />
<br />
pls advice &amp;&nbsp;confirm with some useful links.<br />
<br />
thanks in advance....
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Hi Friends,

I am going to buy FAS2240-2 for storing my VMs. 

can anyone pls advice if I can use the same box for hosting Fileserver to assign some shared network drives to my domain & non-domain windows -7 users? so i will not have to host a separate Win2012 as a Fileserver to serve storage for users.

pls advice & confirm with some useful links.

thanks in advance....

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