Hi,

Does anyone here utilize continuously available CIFS shares for anything other than Hyper-V and/or SQL? If so, do you have real-world results on how those shares do during ONTAP upgrades?

I need to perform upgrades on a 4-node cluster and have a mission critical application that doesn’t like it when the takeover/giveback process severs its CIFS sessions. I’m trying to figure out a way to do this without causing downtime to the application which in-turn causes push-back on the upgrade plan.

The application appears to be connecting to the shares via SMB3_1, so it should support CA, right? I’ve tested checking the CA box on one of its shares and the app drains connections to the share and stops sending any more traffic, so it appears to not like something related to that change. One of its shares, however, was provisioned with that box checked and that one works just fine as far as traffic & sessions go.

-- Scott s.eno@me.com