asked on 2/18/2019

Server 2012 DFS shares

I have a file share server (Win 2012 R2) with 6 separate virtual hard disk partitions. I want to set up another file server to replicate to using DFS Replication. My question is, do i need to have the same exact number of disk partitions and their sizes or can i create a single partition with equal too or greater than the other servers partitions and replicate to it.

* Distributed File System Replication (DFSR)Windows Server 2012

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Leigh Kalbli

11/30/2019

Cliff Galiher

2/18/2019

DFS-R operates at the file level. It has no dependency on partition sizes beyond needing enough room to stage and store replicated data.

yo_bee

2/19/2019

Are you locating this new file share in a completely different location?
Is so you will want to make sure that the Sites and Services is properly setup to avoid traffic from going over the wire between locations.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/canitpro/2015/03/03/step-by-step-setting-up-active-directory-sites-subnets-site-links/

Leigh Kalbli

2/20/2019

ASKER

Thank you both for the reply. the idea was to have to VM's each VM' being in a seperate cluster and replicating to each other. Ill read the article and follow up. I will be out of office for about a week so may not post my findings right away.

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Leigh Kalbli

11/30/2019

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