I am attempting to setup a stand-alone DFS Namespace to alleviate some of the growing pains of ever increasing data requirements at our facility. Essentially what I would like to do is setup this DFS Namespace on the current server (Server 1, 12TB), then whenever the "arbitrary for now" storage threshold is met, stand up another server (Server 2) and begin having it's storage used.
I'd like to be able to have the namespace root match the share location name of how Server1 is currently setup, so DataShare (below), so the transition is transparent to end users.
I'm in the testing phase on a couple servers (DFSN role is installed on both) I've stood up, but the documentation seems very scarce for my type of situation and I'm stuck.
The current setup is just Server1, and working with two of our development server's folder targets combine as one under the namespace root folder "target/alias" has me stuck. Is everything for this doable from the DFS Management console, or are some of the setup/configuration steps required to be done via command line?
Server1
--DataShare
---Userfolder1
---Userfolder2
---Userfolder3
---etc...data threshold met, stand up Server2 now
Server2 (hypothetical)
--DataShare
---Userfolder4
---Userfolder5
---etc...
