Users Guide

Feature Summary

Improved SMB event messages Provides more information in the SMB event

logging, which is used to assist in troubleshooting

some network failure conditions.

Hyper-V Live Migration over SMB Enables the use of advanced SMB features for Live

Migration, such as SMB Direct and SMB

Multichannel.

Improved SMB bandwidth management Expands SMB bandwidth management capability to

control different types of SMB traffic.

Support for multiple SMB instances on a Scale-Out

File Server

Provides capability for each storage node to be

able to segregate intra-cluster CSV and SMB traffic

in separate instances.

UNMAP command

UNMAP is disabled for the Storage Spaces VDs to reduce the impact on the RHS cluster service.

Run the following PowerShell command to disable UNMAP.

Fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 1

Configuring Windows Server updates

Dell recommends you to enable automatic updates in Windows Update or Windows Server Update

Services (WSUS) to ensure that you are receiving the latest knowledge base articles (KB), which may

address many of the features in this solution.

For more information about required knowledge base articles, see Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage

Spaces Support Matrix.