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Grouping multiple FSx for Windows File Server file systems with DFS Namespaces

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server supports the use of Microsoft's Distributed File System (DFS) Namespaces. You can use DFS Namespaces to group file shares on multiple file systems into one common folder structure (a namespace) that you use to access the entire file dataset. DFS Namespaces can help you to organize and unify access to your file shares across multiple file systems. DFS Namespaces can also help to scale file data storage beyond what each file system supports (64 TB) for large file datasets—up to hundreds of petabytes.

DFS Namespaces is a role service in Windows Server that enables you to group shared folders located on different servers into one or more logically structured namespaces. This makes it possible to give users a virtual view of shared folders, where a single path leads to files located on multiple file systems, as shown in the following diagram.

Diagram displaying the process of creating a single namespace on two namespace servers.

For a step-by-step procedure for grouping FSx for Windows file systems using DFS Namespaces, see Setting up DFS Namespaces for grouping multiple file systems.