We too have a 960 cluster fully populated (48TB raw and 80% used) running predominantly CIFS. No issues in terms of performance. It also runs iSCSI LUNS for exchange and SQL on it and some NFS. We have been very happy with its performance. We bought the filer to consolidate our windows filer servers (32 of them). CIFS with qtrees and quotas has been a life saver for us. -G
On 8/30/05, slinkymax0r slinkywizard@integra.net wrote:
Here's the story... Lately I've been getting a lot of requests for CIFS services on my filer. Until recently I have been able to avoid a lot of windows interaction but that time is coming close to an end.
My Observations:
Adding Cifs to your mix shouldn't kill CPU unless you are heavily using crypto or smb signing.
Performance is typically greater than both Samba and Windows for bread and butter file server operations using CIFS.
YMMV, but if you aren't seeing significant CPU usage or I/Os now, adding the additional Cifs clients shouldn't cause you any grief.