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Storage Servers
A MetaProfiles-IT Storage
Server is a Windows file server
running the MetaProfiles-IT
Storage Service. This service
receives and stores the user’s
compressed data subset from the
Agent Service when the user logs
off. Likewise, it retrieves the
user’s compressed data subset
and sends it to the Agent
Service when the user logs on.
Compared to the overhead of a
file server managing
multi-megabyte user profiles,
the overhead of the Storage
Service is very low since
MetaProfiles data subsets are
typically in the range of 50 to
200 KB per user.
Figure 6 illustrates the process
of configuring a Storage Server.
The steps to add a Storage
Server using the Provision
Management Framework (PMC) are:
- Specify the name of the
target Storage Server
- Specify the name of the
“base” folder
- Specify the name of the
“global” folder relative to
the base folder
- Specify the TCP port on
which the Storage Service will
listen for Agent Service
requests
Figure 6 – A Storage Server
is configured in a few easy
steps.
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