Re: Replacement for a clustered file share

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Tom Moreau wrote:
If you want redundancy, then why are you moving it off of the cluster? That said, have you looked at DFS?

I would like to move it off the cluster for several reasons, but the most importantly because whenever I need to do something with my SQL server, it impacts my file share resource groups, as well.

What I would like to know is what technologies are there that would allow me to "expose" my shared drive in a fashion similar to clustered file share. What I mean by that is in clustered file share the share is exposed on the network as "virtual server\share name" under single IP address. If I understand DFS correctly, you would end-up with two synchronized file shares server_A\share_x and server_B\share_x. Am I getting this correctly?

Thanks,
APrzestroga
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