SMB connections

The number of concurrent SMB connections that a protocol node can handle is dependent on the following factors:

• Number of processors
• Amount of memory installed in the protocol node
• The IO workload. This depends on the following factors:
  • Number of concurrent SMB connections
  • Lifetime and frequency of SMB connections
  • Overhead due to metadata operations
  • Frequency of operations on each SMB connection
  • Concurrent access to the same files
• The storage configuration and advanced functions that are configured to run while serving high number of SMB connections