Can you span a single file share across multiple servers?

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Published on 2011-02-15T15:02:31Z Indexed on 2011/02/15 15:27 UTC
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Let's say I have one large file server that has a company-wide share. That file server constantly runs into space issues. Now let's say I have a dozen or so random servers (print servers, web servers, etc) that have a ton of free space. Is there a way to utilize that in the company-wide file share? Like spanning the storage across different servers but making that transparent to the user?

I know the likely answer is going to be get more storage for the file server, but I just curious if this is conceptually possible.

Thanks!

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