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failover cluster

A server redundancy feature that allows a service to continue operating even if a server fails. A failover cluster has two or more servers configured as nodes in a failover cluster. Nodes in a failover clusters must share the same data source. If one node fails, another node will access the data source and continue to provide the service.

Fibre Channel (FC)

A high-speed connection used for storage networking. Fibre Channel uses dedicated hardware (Fibre Channel switches and host bus adapters), making it more expensive than iSCSI.

file screens

A tool available within the File Server Resource Manager that allows you to control which types of files users can save. A file screen can specifically restrict certain files and ...

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