We have virtual Windows Server 2012 R2 file server that is replicating to another virtual Windows Server 2012 R2 file server in a branch office. The SAN for the cluster has two disk pools - a high-capacity-low-speed pool and a low-capacity-high-speed pool.
The virtual disk for the actual files is on the high-capacity disk pool with the default DFSR configuration. Is it worthwhile to move the staging/conflict/deleted folders to separate virtual disk on the high-speed disk pool?
If so:
- Can I move the staging/conflict/deleted folders without triggering a re-initialization of the DFSR connection?
- Are there any guidelines to sizing the drive that the staging folder will be on? Obviously at least as large as the quotas, but I'm under the impression that that's an elastic limit so I need a buffer of some sort.
- As a matter of SAN optimization, would the staging folder be characterized more as sequential or random access?