A Company Currently Has Multiple Fileservers to Provide Home Directories

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A company currently has multiple fileservers to provide home directories for its employees. Each department has a separate fileserver. Most corporate users are on Windows clients and utilize Active Directory, except for the Engineering department, which uses Linux and NIS for authentication. The company is looking for a solution with minimal administrative overhead and a single namespace for the home directories. What is the recommended solution that will meet this company's requirements?

• A) Configure a single Isilon cluster and utilize Access Zones for authentication to Active Directory and NIS.
• B) Configure two separate clusters, one for Windows clients and the other for Linux.
• C) Utilize SmartPools to create two different FilePools, and separate Windows users from Linux users.
• D) Configure a single cluster, and migrate Linux users to Windows.

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