HP StoreEasy 1000 Storage - Manual (Page 42)

• Remote Desktop Connection
• Remote Web Administration
• Windows Server Remote Administration Applet
For more information, see the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Help.
Share and Storage Management
With the Share and Storage Management snap-in provided in this release, you can more easily set
up and manage shared folders and storage. Share and Storage Management provides the following:
• MMC-based management of shared folders and storage.
• Provision Storage Wizard for creating and configuring storage for file sharing and block sharing,
including creating LUNs on storage subsystems, as well as creating and formatting volumes on
LUNs or server disks.
NOTE:
You must have a VDS Hardware Provider that is appropriate for your storage system installed in
order to provision storage on an iSCSI target. If you have Microsoft iSCSI Software Target running
on a Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 storage system, install the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target
VDS Hardware Provider on the client computer.
• Provision a Shared Folder Wizard for creating and configuring shared folders that can be accessed
by using either the server message block (SMB) or NFS protocol.
• Single Instance Storage (SIS) can be enabled or disabled for each volume that is displayed in
Share and Storage Management. SIS recovers disk space by reducing the amount of redundant
data stored on a volume. It identifies identical files, storing only a single copy of the file in the SIS
Common Store, and replacing the files with pointers to the file in the SIS Common Store.
The Share and Storage Management snap-in makes it possible to complete most of the administrative
tasks that are required to create and manage shared folders and volumes without having to use the
Shared Folder Management, Storage Manager for SANs, or Disk Management snap-ins. These tasks
include configuring quotas to restrict the quantity of data, configuring file screening to prevent certain
file types or only allowing certain file types defined by the administrator, and enabling indexing.
For more information, see the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Help.
Single Instance Storage
The Single Instance Storage (SIS) feature reduces the amount of space that is used to store data on a
volume. SIS does this by replacing duplicate files with logical links that point to a single copy of the
file in the SIS Common Store, which is a hidden folder that is located in the root directory of the
volume.
SIS consists of two primary components that together maintain a database of file signatures. These
components include:
• Groveler service - The Groveler service scans the hard-disk volumes on a server for duplicate
copies of files. If the service locates duplicate copies of files, the information about the duplicates
is sent to the Single Instance Storage Filter. The Groveler service runs as a user-level service.
• Single Instance Storage Filter - The Single Instance Storage Filter is a file system filter service that
manages duplicate copies of files on hard-disk volumes. When notified by the Groveler service
of duplicate copies of files, this component copies one instance of a duplicate file into a central
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