Windows Distributed File System

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How do I configure a Distributed File System (DFS)?

A Windows Distributed File System DFS allows users to find, view, and work with files on your network from one central location. With DFS configured, users do not have to understand the complexities of a network or enter long UNC addresses to browse to files. DFS is installed with Windows...

Tags: Root, Distributed File System, Windows Distributed File System, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Networking, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Steven Warren

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Additional Resources

Step-by-Step Guide to Distributed File System (Dfs)

Since shared files are widely distributed across networks, administrators face growing problems as they try to keep users connected to the data they need. The distributed file system Dfs provides a mechanism for administrators to create logical views of directories and files, regardless of where those files physically reside in...

Tags: Administrator, Network, Network Storage, Distributed File System, Networking

White papers 2000-03-07

Don't Give Up on Distributed File Systems

Wide-area distributed applications often reinvent the wheel for their storage needs, each incorporating its own special-purpose storage manager to cope with distribution, intermittent failures, limited bandwidth, and high latencies. This paper argues that a distributed file system could provide a reusable solution to these problems by coupling a standard interface...

Tags: File System, New York University, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-01-26

MSDN Architecture Webcast: Transactions in Distributed Solutions With Windows Communication Foundation (Level 200)

All people must have heard the mantra about Windows Communication Foundation supporting "Secure, reliable, and transacted Web services." But what does that last part, "Transacted," really mean? How can the user implement transactions in distributed solutions using Windows Communication Foundation? Where should he use transactions in a distributed system, and...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Windows Communication Foundation

Webcasts

Cryptographic Security for a High-Performance Distributed File System

Storage systems are increasingly subject to attacks. Cryptographic file systems mitigate the danger of exposing data by using encryption and integrity protection methods and guarantee end-to-end security for their clients. This paper describes a generic design for cryptographic file systems and its realization in a distributed Storage-Area Network SAN file...

Tags: Security, File System, High-performance

White papers 2007-04-29

Distributed File System

Microsoft Distributed File System does for servers and shares what file systems do for hard disks. File systems provide uniform named access to collections of sectors on disks; Dfs provides a uniform naming convention and mapping for collections of servers, shares, and files. Thus, Dfs makes it possible to organize...

Tags: File System, Server, Microsoft Corp.

White papers

Performance Analysis of Distributed Data Base Systems

In this paper we briefly present the design of a distributed relational data base system. Then, we discuss experimental observations of the performance of that system executing both short and long commands. Conclusions are also drawn concerning metrics that distributed query processing heuristics should attempt to minimize. Lastly, we comment...

Tags: Performance, University Of California, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers

NetApp Filers in a Microsoft Windows Environment

NetApp filers deliver highly reliable file services to Microsoft Windows clients via the Common Internet File System CIFS protocol. This paper describes how filers work seamlessly in the Microsoft Windows environment and enable you to effortlessly manage data by making use of standard Microsoft services and features such as the...

Tags: Environment, NetApp Filer, Microsoft Corp., NetApp, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

White papers 2004-12-01

Building Distributed Services on the Windows Communication Foundation

This webcast is intended for anyone who builds distributed systems on the Microsoft platform by using Remote Procedure Call RPC, DCOM, COM+, Message Queuing also known as MSMQ, .NET Framework remoting, ASP.NET Web services ASMX, or Web Services Enhancements WSE. Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code named "Indigo") is the strategic...

Tags: Windows Communication Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Distributed System

Webcasts

Terminal Server farm & data storage?

I'm trying to create Terminal Server Farm with Windows 2003R2 Enterprise Edition for load balancing. The problem is with the data, though I've placed it on a sahred storage box (HP's MSA 500G2) thru SCSI connect ot the servers. Users thru one terminal server are not able to see the...

Tags: data storage, Distributed File System, hardware, jagan.krish@..., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Terminal Server, server farm, storage, Terminal Server Farm, Windows 2003 R2

Q&A 2006-08-06

Distributed Virtual Data Center: Using Windows Server System and Melio FS for Dynamic Resource Allocation and 7-24 Application Uptime

Virtualization is a powerful tool for improving data center flexibility, reliability, and utilization, while reducing cost of management. By separating logical processing and storage resources from the physical hardware on which they run, virtualization can greatly improve the utility of these assets. Using Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Data Center...

Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server System, Uptime, Allocation, Sanbolic Inc., Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software

White papers 2007-06-01

Proportional Service Allocation in Distributed Storage Systems

Fully distributed storage systems have gained popularity in the past few years because of their ability to use cheap commodity hardware and their high scalability. While there are a number of algorithms for providing differentiated quality of service to clients of a centralized storage system, the problem has not been...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Allocation, Storage System, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

White papers 2006-12-13

A System for Specifying and Coordinating the Execution of Reliable Distributed Applications

An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure, containing many temporal and dataflow dependencies between their constituent applications. This paper describes the design and implementation of a coordination language and the supporting execution...

Tags: Application, Corba, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software

White papers

DIBS: Distributed Backup for Local Area Networks

DIBS Distributed Intranet Backup System is a distributed file backup system for computers in local area networks that lack dedicated or secondary data storage. DIBS exploits the unused disk space among a set of connected machines and the high speed of local area networks to provide a transparent peer-to-peer backup...

Tags: Network, DIBS, Backups, LANs, Networking

White papers 2007-01-01

Windows 2003 Server - File Replication

Hello, I have a need to establish real-time replication between 2 servers, both running Windows 2003 Server OS, linked by T1. The data to be replicated will be standard user Microsoft document types (.doc, .xls, etc.) and we are only concerned about "one-way" replication, in the event of an...

Tags: Distributed File System, feedback, File Replication, Groove Networks Inc., jlabadessa@..., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, networking, replication, server, Tacit, windows

Discussion threads 2006-10-25

Network Distributed Monitoring System Based on Robot Technology Middleware

In this paper, a network distributed monitoring system for human assistance robot system was developed to improve the interaction among the users and local service robotic system and enable a remote user to get a better understanding of what is going on in the local environment. Home integration robot system...

Tags: Network, Monitoring System, Middleware, University Of Electro-Communications, Robots, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2007-03-01

Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Improvements for Distributed Networks

Microsoft Windows Server Update Services WSUS 3.0 introduces a completely rewritten user interface with rich status information and highly-customized reporting. However, other improvements promise to be just as compelling for WSUS administrators - especially those with distributed environments. This paper highlights options for distributed WSUS deployments and is targeted at...

Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Distributed Network, Microsoft Windows

White papers 2007-06-01

Z47 Virtual Processor (Windows) (exe)

The Z47 Processor is a Self-Contained Distributed Operating System (SCD-OS) which allows applications written in Z++ to run locally. Self-contained means it does not make system calls to any operating system. It is entirely written in the subset of C++, which is standard. Components of a Z++ application can be...

Tags: Processor, Application, Z47 Processor, C/C++, Microsoft Windows, Real Estate, Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Business Operations

Software downloads 2007-05-17

Understanding Distributed Processing Inside DB2 for z/OS

DB2 users are seeing more and more of their workload originating off the mainframe. This shift to more distributed processing presents new challenges for the DB2 performance specialist and brings up new questions about how to manage performance for distributed threads. This webcast will use BMC's MAINVIEW for DB2 product...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Performance, IBM z/OS, IBM DB2, Performance Management, It Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It service Management, Software, Data Management

Webcasts

Distributed SIPFlow - Single User License (1)

Distributed SIPFlow interfaces with SIPSniffers running on remote hosts and displays the call flows as reported by those sniffers. Each SIPSniffer can be connected to by one or more Distributed SIPFlow Consoles. Distributed SIPFlow not only shows the callflows captured by SIPSniffers, but can also send notifications when error messages...

Tags: Sipient Systems

Software downloads 2006-11-21