topic Fileservers on two domains residing on NetApp with 2 controllers - CIFS question in VMware Solutions Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/Fileservers-on-two-domains-residing-on-NetApp-with-2-controllers-CIFS-question/m-p/59916#M5617 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello!</P><P></P><P>I have two domains with 2 servers on each that I would like to virtualize with vmware and put on NetApp.</P><P>Two in each domain are file servers with about 600 GB of data each.</P><P>I am not sure if I should host all file server data on NetApp (i think I cannot have 2 Active Directory realms for CIFS)???</P><P></P><P>Tech info:</P><P></P><P>FAS2020 filled with 12 500GB SAS disks.</P><P>Two controllers on FAS2020.</P><P>No FlexClone.</P><P>CIFS, NFS and SCSI licenses.</P><P>Small environment with about 30 clients/users in each network/domain.</P><P></P><P>If you have any additional advice I would really appreciate it!</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance!</P><P></P><P>Marin Katic</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:51:57 GMT marinkatic 2025-06-05T06:51:57Z Fileservers on two domains residing on NetApp with 2 controllers - CIFS question https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/Fileservers-on-two-domains-residing-on-NetApp-with-2-controllers-CIFS-question/m-p/59916#M5617 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello!</P><P></P><P>I have two domains with 2 servers on each that I would like to virtualize with vmware and put on NetApp.</P><P>Two in each domain are file servers with about 600 GB of data each.</P><P>I am not sure if I should host all file server data on NetApp (i think I cannot have 2 Active Directory realms for CIFS)???</P><P></P><P>Tech info:</P><P></P><P>FAS2020 filled with 12 500GB SAS disks.</P><P>Two controllers on FAS2020.</P><P>No FlexClone.</P><P>CIFS, NFS and SCSI licenses.</P><P>Small environment with about 30 clients/users in each network/domain.</P><P></P><P>If you have any additional advice I would really appreciate it!</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance!</P><P></P><P>Marin Katic</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:51:57 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/Fileservers-on-two-domains-residing-on-NetApp-with-2-controllers-CIFS-question/m-p/59916#M5617 marinkatic 2025-06-05T06:51:57Z Fileservers on two domains residing on NetApp with 2 controllers - CIFS question https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/Fileservers-on-two-domains-residing-on-NetApp-with-2-controllers-CIFS-question/m-p/59920#M5618 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> Hi Marin</P><P></P><P>Since you have 2 controllers, I would rather setup cifs on both of them (Controller1 in Domain1 and Controller2 in Domain2) then running a VMware Windows FileServer (or 2)...</P><P></P><P>Just make sure that both Controllers have the correct AD DNS Servers defined and the DNS Domain pointing to the Active Directory.</P><P></P><P>Then you'll have two high available and high performance NetApp FileServers with the best Snapshot in the world.</P><P></P><P>Hope this helps,</P><P>Peter</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:02:23 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/Fileservers-on-two-domains-residing-on-NetApp-with-2-controllers-CIFS-question/m-p/59920#M5618 peter_lehmann 2011-06-28T14:02:23Z