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Business or Enterprise DFS-R fails
We worked with MS Professional Services to design an Windows Server 2016 file server replacement for our NAS. One of our concerns was if Windows Server could handle larger partitions in the 1-10 TB r...
I used DFS in my last job and its not great for large quantity of files. The replication is slow and if you have any issues it can be a real headache to fix. I would suggest looking up Ned Pyles articles on DFS really helpful. You could possible look at cloning to speed up the initial sync of the volumes. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2013/08/21/dfs-replication-initial-sync-in-windows-server-2012-r2-attack-of-the-clones/
You may want to look into Storage Replica as an alternative replication method, again Ned Pyle has good articles on this.