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

You can use Microsoft's Distributed File System (DFS) Namespaces to group file shares on multiple FSx for Windows File Server file systems into one common folder structure, or namespace. Using DFS Namespaces, you can scale file storage beyond the maximum storage capacity of single file system (64 TiB) for large file datasets—up to hundreds of petabytes. This section shows you how to set up DFS namespaces on multiple FSx for Windows File Server file systems.

DFS Namespaces is a Windows Server role service that you use 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. In addition to organizing and unifying access to your file shares across multiple file systems,

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.