On 01/04/2013 10:10 AM, Steven Kreuzer wrote:
> Greetings-
>
> I have a remote office that is a mix of Windows and Unix clients that have to
> access a filer far away in our main office.
>
> For the unix folks, we have deployed a flexcache and their quality of life has
> greatly improved. It looks like NetApp doesn't offer any type of flexcache type
> solution for CIFS so I am look at other options.
>
> Are there any flexcache like solutions from a 3rd party that people have
> deployed and is anyone using a tcp accelerator appliance such as Riverbed to
> speed to access to a volume via CIFS?
>
> At this point, I am open to just about any solution :)

ONTAP 8.1.1 added support for Microsoft's BranchCache.  I'm not familiar with
Windows, but from what I've read it seems to have some lofty requirements from
Microsoft regarding supported client and server OS.  Might be worth a look at
though.

/* Wes Hardin */
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