DFS Plan
I have a network I just became responsible for. I just added a 2012 server to the sole 2003 server domain. (Both are now DC's in the same domain) Goals are to move a lot of the main functionality to this new beefy box with some functions in VMs. Then the old 2003 box will remain the second DC and image storage, etc. Right now there is about 200G of data on the old box. Everything from user files, a lot of large images (scanned in maps) and several databases.
I want to introduce DFS. I have managed it in the passed but am a long way from a Guru on it. Here is what I am thinking of doing:
- Setup DFS on the old box.
- Get all the shares setup and tested, update the login scripts to take advantage of the new DFS Shares.
- Let things settle down
- Use DFS Replication to make a second data repository on the new server
- Migrate the DFS management to the new server
- Configure DFS so that the old server is just holding a failover copy of the data
Is this do-able? Thoughts?
Thanks!!
