Designing Software-Defined Storage with Windows Server – we've got a calculator

Designing Software-Defined Storage with Windows Server – we’ve got a calculator and a doc for thatYou can use this guide and the Software-Defined Storage Design Calculator spreadsheet to design a storage solution that uses the Storage Spaces and Scale-Out File Server functionality of Windows Server2012R2 along with cost-effective servers and shared serial-attached SCSI (SAS) storage enclosures. Storage Spaces is a software-defined storage technology that enables you to virtualize storage by grouping SSDs and hard disks into storage pools and then creating high-performance and resilient virtual disks, called storage spaces, from available capacity in the pools. You can then place Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs) and file shares on these virtual disks, which in turn host data for your workloadsDeveloped in response to direct customer...
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Hello Marc,
Do you mean than you want everyone have their own personal share folder? And need to limit the folder size?
I think you can use the FTP server function in Windows server.
About FTP, it is recommended to ask in the Windows server forum, the professionals there will be glad to help you.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=winserverfiles
Thanks for your understanding.
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
Fangzhou CHEN
TechNet Community Support

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