[fizzwheel]

AD - I'd need to check, but IIRC they arent anywhere near being remotely over loaded.

WAN isnt a problem for replication as its going over a DWDM ( 2 x 1gb links ) low level of latency and not where near capacity, some of the rep traffic thats already going over that link is the file serving replication traffic that I am looking to change to use DFS-R with.

I do have Vmware, my trouble is the 200gb worth of data that I want to shift is buried into a right old mess and mis match of structure. Which I want to unpick. So thats a little more tricky to do with regard to building a POC and then pointing the users at it. Also the data isnt being managed so most of it is dormant and needs archving, which is another problem I need to sort.

I was thinking of setting the DFS-R up and then migrating anything thats been touched within the last 6 months and then ditching the older data anyway... so the intial load is probably going to be small.

Bear in mind we already have DFS-R running already on a different pair of servers, and thats running with on trouble at all, no network, no ad problems after we deployed it.

I'm assuming it is just the read from AD that puts the load on, and that the amount of load on AD has nothing whatsoever to do with the amount of data that DFS-R is sitting in front of ?