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A customer planning to deploy servers in remote offices asked us about centrally managing quotas using File Server Resource Manager (FSRM). With business requirements changing periodically, the customer needed an easy way to make updates across the servers.
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We’ve seen numerous reports of the following event within Microsoft and from our customers. EVENT LOG Application EVENT TYPE Warning SOURCE SRMSVC EVENT ID 12317 COMPUTERNAME SERVER2 TIME 5/1/2006 12:15:45 PM MESSAGE File Server Resource Manager failed
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This is a common observation among customers using FSRM. They report that quotas work as expected, but from the client perspective, the assigned quota limit for a user’s share is not displayed correctly. For example, in Windows Explorer, users see the
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A frequent question among our FSRM users is how to set FSRM quotas on a server cluster. Georgi Matev, the FSRM PM, responds: Configuring a quota on a folder must be done on the node that currently owns the volume on which the folder is located. Once configured,
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A customer recently asked about how to migrate NTFS quotas to FSRM quotas. Georgi Matev, the program manager for FSRM, responds: If NTFS-based quotas were used for user home directories, the migration is pretty straightforward. First, the customer needs
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A customer recently tested FSRM and noticed the following, “In our testing, we have two root folders, A and B, with separate quota policies for each. If we move a subfolder of A to B, we don’t see the moved subfolder get the B policy. It seems to maintain
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Several customers have asked about gotchas or other limitations for using File Server Resource Manager on server clusters. Georgi Matev, the program manager for this feature, responds: FSRM quotas are fully supported on clustered file servers. We’ve tried
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With the increasing demand on storage resources, information technology (IT) administrators must oversee larger and more complex storage infrastructures yet still track the kinds of information available in it. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 File Server
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Join us for a TechNet chat on Windows Server 2003 R2, featuring Storage Manager for SANs and File Server Resource Manager, in an iSCSI environment. Experts from Microsoft will be answering questions, and EqualLogic experts will also be joining in this
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A customer recently asked how performance is affected when you use File Server Resource Manager in R2 on large volumes. Based on our testing, here’s what to expect: Quotas: Internal benchmarks have consistently shown I/O performance cost of less than
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