I am currently looking at:
- multiple file servers in the field responsible for user/departmental data
- these site file server shares have been added to DFS namespace as folder targets
- we would like to add a second replication partner/target so that there is redundancy if a file server goes down
we have stood up a few VMs to act as the second server replication partners... our storage team has provisioned us a bunch of space on the NAS (15+TB)
I am having issues working with the NAS and adding it as a replication partner... for a replication group I have
\\remotefileserver\data$
\\localNAS.domain.loc\data
is this even possible to use the NAS as a replication partner? I have tried adding it as a network drive to the VMs that will act as replication partners, but that still does not allow me to share and add it to replication...
the DFS management snap in bombs out when trying to setup replication and using the NAS address as a folder target