NFS and SMB file services

File shares are still where most business data lives. Whether that is a Windows file server with DFS, a NetApp CIFS server or a Synology, the same problems recur: permissions nobody understands, no snapshots, a share that grew to terabytes without a plan.

We clean up and consolidate file services, add snapshot protection, and migrate to SharePoint or a NAS where that makes sense.

At a glance

What RackLedge does

• Permissions audit and AGDLP cleanup
• DFS namespace design across sites
• Snapshot schedules and self-service restore
• File server to SharePoint/OneDrive migration

How we work

Storage projects begin with an honest capacity and performance baseline: how much data, how fast it grows, what IOPS and latency the applications actually need. That baseline decides between an entry SAN, a unified array, a NAS or a hyper-converged design, and it keeps vendors from selling you the biggest box.

We build the network under the storage as carefully as the storage itself: isolated iSCSI paths or dual FC fabrics, multipathing on every host and a failover test before anything goes live. Backups get an immutable copy and a restore test on a schedule.

Migrations are run as projects with a written cutover plan, a rollback path and a validation checklist. Old arrays are decommissioned with certified data destruction and the documentation is handed over.

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