Re: DFS sizing question

Marcus, that should be fine.
There are some Microsoft guidelines that are well below this, but I think
the actual constraints are bandwidth and volume of changes. As your replicas
are on the same LAN and changes are relatively small you should be OK.
Anthony,
http://www.airdesk.co.uk


"Marcus Dempsey" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to implement DFS on our Windows 2003 R2 SP2 network, DFS will
> be
> located on a small network which is located on a single site with 2 domain
> controllers and 3 potential DFS members, the amount of actual network
> traffic
> on the network is very low and its based on 1Gbs copper.
>
> I'm looking to use one namespace which will be located on both domain
> controllers, and DFS will be linked to one root folder which will be syned
> between the 3 DFS member servers.
>
> My question is, is our solution going to be too much for DFS to handle
> with
> the following number of files/folders (currently average) - the amount of
> files/folders will increase.
>
> Folder count: 52,000
> File count: 815,000
>
> The actual data change will be low for those amount of files/folders, and
> after the initial syncing of the data, there would be around 200-300MB
> worth
> of file/folder addition every day.
>
> If this is way to much for DFS can anyone else suggest a solution to
> replicate this data between 3 servers using a common namespace.
>
> Marcus