Hi, I have a client that is thinking of moving there servers into a Colocation Datacenter. They have a bunch of power issues and dont want to build there own datacenter. If they do go with this scenario we started wondering how to handle file share access to the file servers. They would be moved to the datacenter.
We have a couple ideas but are wondering what others are doing, in a way this is the same thing i guess as adding a remote location in a way.
One thing we thought about doing is just using a vpn tunnel between the datacenter and the client location and mapping drives like they have it now. But we wondered if this would be to slow over a wan vpn connection, especially large files, when i say large, i mean 5 megs, not 100 meg files.
Some suggested just moving it to a sharepoint server. Is sharepoint designed for this type of thing? We have about 100 to 200 gigs in office files and pdf's. Its a large folder structure.
Has anyone switched there file server into using sharepoint? If so what are some of the pros and cons
If sharepoint isnt the solution, would love to hear some other ideas
Thanks
Mike