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PowerScale OneFS Web Administration Guide

SMB Multichannel requirements

You must meet software and NIC configuration requirements to support SMB Multichannel on a cluster.

OneFS can only support SMB Multichannel when the following software requirements are met:

  • Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 or Windows 8, 8.1 clients
  • SMB Multichannel must be enabled on both the cluster and the Windows client computer. It is enabled on the cluster by default.

SMB Multichannel establishes a single SMB session over multiple network connections only on supported network interface card (NIC) configurations. SMB Multichannel requires at least one of the following NIC configurations on the client computer:

  • Two or more network interface cards.
  • One or more network interface cards that support Receive Side Scaling (RSS).
  • One or more network interface cards configured with link aggregation. Link aggregation enables you to combine the bandwidth of multiple NICs on a node into a single logical interface.

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