DFS and Quota Migration

[lmrogers]

Good Morning,

 

I'm hoping someone will be able to help guide me. I have 2 file servers both on 2008 R2. I'm looking to migrate them to 2012 R2. One manages DFS and the other manages Users quotas. Whats the best way to upgrade these servers?

 

Cheers.

[Sagima]

Both of those features are still in 2012R2 so if they are only file servers I think I would probably just do the in place upgrade to 2012r2

[lmrogers]

I'm looking to re work how the shares are distributed between these 2 servers and am looking to set up file servers from scratch. If i setup DFS namespaces with a new name, would it work if i renamed them the old and then name the new what the old was, would that work?

[Sagima]

I'm not quite sure I follow. But once DFS is set up it doesn't matter what you name the servers as they access the shares through the dfs name. You can rename the servers all you like and it won't break it

[lmrogers]

so at the minute we have dfs set up like \\dfsname\shares and then have shares split across both file servers. What i would like to do is set up the new server with shares split differently across the 2 file servers and then set up dfs again but reuse the old dfs name, if that is any clearer?

[Sagima]

If you attach the new server(s) to the same namespace and replicate/move (backup/restore) the folders to where you need them I think they'll still be accessible but I haven't done that. I have replica fileservers - when I add a new one I just add it to the replication pool and after remove the old one. I normally rename both servers at that point. Renaming doesn't bother dfs at all