How to replace our file server?

[markdesimone]

We are currently using a file server and would like to replace it with Alfresco.  Is that an easy integration?  Do you just install it and point it to the file server repository and it will just suck it up?

thanks,
Mark

[kevinr]

It can be If you are happy to use CIFS (network drive) or FTP access then it should be an easy enough import.

Thanks,

Kevin

[markdesimone]

Our file server is currently on an Xserve.  Will it still work?  Also, it has about 400 GB worth of documents, do you forsee any scaling issues in terms of how long it would take to perform searches?  One of the key things we need to do is make it searchable.

thanks,
mark

[kevinr]

As long as you can create an ftp session between the xserve box and the alfresco server then i would hope so.

Sounds like you will be wanting a large repo setup. As far as scaling is concerned, it's the usual things: put your DB on a separate machine with fast disks and on a high speed local connection to your Alfresco server, throw appropriate hardware at the Alfresco server itself - several multi-core processors and separate disks/arrays for the content store location (even go as far as multiple RAID arrays for the alf_data subdirs) and also the lucene index store location. A TomCat cluster could also help. If you make the right decisions early then it should be perfectly doable.

Thanks,

Kevin