Administrator Guide

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. This
feature supports default tenants only. Multichannel provides the following benets:
Increased Throughput – The le 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 Conguration – 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 congured with RSS (Receive Side
Scaling).
Operating System – FluidFS v6 supports multichannel on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 and later.
By default, the Windows client opens one connection per non-RSS NIC and up to four connections per RSS capable NIC.
Viewing the Fibre Channel WWNs
Storage Manager displays the NAS controller World Wide Names (WWNs) needed for updating fabric zoning on your Fibre Channel
switch.
1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the Hardware tab.
3. In the Hardware view, expand Appliances → NAS appliance ID → NAS controller ID, then select Interfaces. The WWNs for
the NAS controller are displayed in the right pane in the Fibre Channel list.
FluidFS Networking
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