Without Folderscape, you're left to manage your filer using FilerView and Windows Explorer. They make you jump through hoops to get simple things done. Instead of doing things in one place and in one step, you have to perform multiple steps while jumping from place to place in the software.

Here are some common management tasks, showing the number of different places you have to go in the software and the number of steps you have to perform to do the tasks:

	FilerView		Folderscape
	Places	Steps	Places	Steps
Create a qtree, add a share, then set permissions	3	3	1	2
Rename a shared folder	3	3	1	1
Delete a shared qtree	2	2	1	1
Set snapshot schedule for 10 volumes	1	10	1	1
Find share name, permissions, and volume for a folder	3	3	1	1
Resize a volume so it is 70% full	2	3	1	1
Find out which items in the root of a volume are qtrees, and which are folders	2	2	1	1
Change the size and snapshot reserve for a volume	2	2	1	1
Find the roles and users for a group	2	2	1	1
Create a new snapmirror	1	3+	1	1
Lookup the syntax for a NetApp command, then execute it	2	2	1	1
Lookup the meaning of an option, then set that option	2	2	1	1

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