A systems administrator is configuring a new Windows Server that will host user home directories. A key requirement is to enforce storage limits for each user's directory to prevent excessive disk space consumption. Which file system should be chosen to meet this requirement using a native feature?
The correct answer is NTFS. The New Technology File System (NTFS) is the standard file system for Windows operating systems and includes native support for disk quotas. This feature allows an administrator to control the amount of disk space a user can consume, which directly fulfills the requirement in the scenario.
ReFS (Resilient File System) is a newer Microsoft file system focused on data integrity and availability for large volumes but lacks native support for disk quotas.
ext4 is a file system commonly used by Linux distributions and is not native to Windows Server.
VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) is a clustered file system used by VMware vSphere to store virtual machine files, not for general file sharing within a guest OS.
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