Dell Storage Manager 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

About Multichannel

Multichannel is a feature of the SMB 3.0 protocol which allows the client to bind a single session to multiple connections. Multichannel provides the following benefits:

Increased Throughput – The file server can simultaneously transmit more data using multiple connections for high speed network adapters or multiple network adapters.

Network Fault Tolerance – When using multiple network connections at the same time, the clients can continue to work uninterrupted despite the loss of a network connection.

Automatic Configuration – SMB Multichannel automatically discovers the existence of multiple available network interfaces and dynamically adds connections as required.

Multichannel can be enabled and disabled from the CLI using the command CLI > (tenant) internal protocols-settings SMB-settings edit.