I am working at replacing the servers in my network that I have inherited with new ones that I have prepped.
I am starting on the file servers now, and working at overhauling the DFS. Currently there are about 3 servers running DFS. One is a 2003 R2, one is a 2008, and the third is a 2008 R2.
The shares are all wonky, and there is no consistency anywhere. Some share names have spaces in them (which I personally hate), and just no overall thought put into it.
Part of my issue, is my DFS shares are filling up, and low on space. Also, I want to start this new, and want there to be some consistency in all the servers.
Since I am doing this in vmware, I want to add more than one disc, and have one or two for data.
Currently we have about 13 DFS shares, ranging in various sizes. So I don't run into space issues in the future, what would be a good way to distribute the disc allocation?
My USERS share is about 150G. This is all the redirected My Documents folder across the 100 users. The next largest share is about 80G which is a share one group of users use.
Should I spin up a D drive that is 256G, and an E drive that is 256G to use for this storage, and then duplicate this across my 3 DFS servers? I like to create my servers with an 80G C drive for the OS, and then use however many extra drives as D or E and nothing bigger than 500G for ease of movement to house all the data. I could leave the USERS share on one drive, which leaves about 100G for growth, and then the other 256G will easily handle the rest of the shares. Some shares have little data in them, like one is 10M and another is only 2G.
Now when adding this server into the mix, I obviously don't want to lose any files during the replication. I have inherited this mess, and am trying to clean it up and get some structure here.
Thanks.