Dell Fluid File System Version 6.0 Support Matrix

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SMB Support

FluidFS version 6 supports SMB1, SMB2, SMB2.1, SMB3, and SMB3.1 protocols.

NOTE:

Lower-than-maximum SMB level connections are also supported.
Setting ACL from Linux SMB clients is not supported.

Supported SMB Configurations

Each appliance can support a certain number of concurrent (active) SMB connections, even if one of the controllers is not available. The following table lists the supported SMB configurations.

Table 1. Supported SMB Configurations
Feature	Maximum Value
SMB share name	80 bytes¹
SMB shares	1024 per volume / 1024 per system
Concurrent connections	10,000 per 24-GB appliance / 30,000 per 48-GB FS8600 appliance
Concurrent active connections	5000 per appliance
Large MTU (up to 256 KB) connections	50 per 24-GB controller / Unlimited per 48-GB FS8600 controller
Maximum file size for branch cache hash calculations	256 MB

¹ Share names are kept as UTF-8 characters, which might, depending on the character set used, consume multiple bytes. Therefore, the actual maximum length depends on the character set used.