DFSr isn't supported on Isilon, VNX, Unity, etc. It's not at all a DNS issue, instead it's an issue of the service(DFSr) only being supported on Windows Servers. If your data is behind a DFS leaf today you can certainly copy it to a share on Isilon, and then during a switchover event, update the DFS leaf to point from the old source to the new target. How you go about copying the data to the Isilon cluster is where you'll need to use a host-based tool.
My company, Datadobi makes what I certainly believe is the best host-based migration software on the market, but of course I'm biased. But take a look for yourself if you'd like.
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June 13th, 2018 11:00
DFSr isn't supported on Isilon, VNX, Unity, etc. It's not at all a DNS issue, instead it's an issue of the service(DFSr) only being supported on Windows Servers. If your data is behind a DFS leaf today you can certainly copy it to a share on Isilon, and then during a switchover event, update the DFS leaf to point from the old source to the new target. How you go about copying the data to the Isilon cluster is where you'll need to use a host-based tool.
My company, Datadobi makes what I certainly believe is the best host-based migration software on the market, but of course I'm biased. But take a look for yourself if you'd like.
~Chris Klosterman
Principal SE, Datadobi
chris.klosterman@datadobi.com
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