StorSimple integration with DFS

Question

How does StorSimple integrate with a DFS environment (particularly DFS-N, but also DFS-R)?

Answer 1

StorSimple provides very seamless integration with DFS technologies. Using DFS-N along with StorSimple you can define global namespace for all your StorSimple volumes. These volumes could be created on one StorSimple or multiple StorSimple appliances. Please see the following solution paper which provide details on integrating DFS-N along with StorSimple for various use cases.

Distributed File System Namespace Solution with Hybrid Cloud Storage Deployment Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45507

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Regards!!! Navdeep Bawa

Answer 2

DFS-R is supported only on StorSimple locally pinned volumes. DFS-R is not supported on tiered volumes because DFS-R could do a full scan and bring back all the cloud data.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storsimple-overview/#storsimple-workload-summary