Administrator Guide

5. The Client Interface panel displays the bonding mode.
Change the Client Network Bonding Mode
Change the bonding mode (Adaptive Load Balancing or Link Aggregation Control Protocol) of the client network interface to match your
environment.
Prerequisites
• If you have ALB, use one client VIP per client port in the FluidFS cluster.
• If you have LACP, use one client VIP per NAS controller in the FluidFS cluster.
Steps
1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System view, select Cluster Connectivity.
4. Click the Network Interfaces tab.
5. In the Client Interface panel, click Edit Settings. The Modify Client Interface Settings dialog box opens.
6. From the Mode drop-down list, select a bonding mode (ALB or LACP).
7. Click OK.
About Multichannel
Multichannel is a feature of the SMB 3.0 protocol which allows the client to bind a single session to multiple connections. Multichannel
provides the following benefits:
Increased Throughput – The file server can simultaneously transmit more data using multiple connections for high speed network
adapters or multiple network adapters.
Network Fault Tolerance – When using multiple network connections at the same time, the clients can continue to work uninterrupted
despite the loss of a network connection.
Automatic Configuration – SMB Multichannel automatically discovers the existence of multiple available network interfaces and
dynamically adds connections as required.
Multichannel can be enabled and disabled from the CLI using the command CLI > (tenant) internal protocols-settings
SMB-settings edit.
Multichannel Requirements
Multichannel requires the following:
Hardware – On both the client and the server, multichannel requires multiple NICs or a NIC configured with RSS (Receive Side Scaling).
Operating System – FluidFS supports multichannel on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 and 2016.
By default, the Windows client opens one connection per non-RSS NIC and up to four connections per RSS capable NIC.
Enable or Disable SMB Multichannel
Steps
1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System view, select Client Accessibility.
4. Click the Protocols tab.
5. In the SMB Protocol panel, click Edit Settings.
The Edit Settings dialog box opens.
6. Click the Advanced tab.
7. Enable or disable SMB multichannel:
• To enable SMB multichannel, select the SMB Multichannel Enabled checkbox.
• To disable SMB multichannel, clear the SMB Multichannel Enabled checkbox.
8. Click OK.
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