7. Step 3: Design the File Services Infrastructure
With the information regarding the business goals and scope from Step 1 and the inventory data collected in Step 2, it is now possible to begin designing the File Services infrastructure.
This step covers most of the tasks necessary to design the basic File Services infrastructure. That design may then be adjusted in subsequent steps that address replication and namespace services.
The first task is to determine where file servers will be placed. Once that has been decided, the server infrastructure for each of the locations will be designed: The number of servers will be calculated, and the form factor of the servers will be designed. Servers may then be added to provide fault tolerance if ...
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