Matthew -- Did your VNXe come licensed with block data services? It would be better to mount these filesystems as block-level devices to a TSM proxy node, and back them up as "local" storage systems.
That will get you out of dealing with CIFs and potentially get you a dramatic performance increase, but much depends also on the rest of your infrastructure... - what OS is running on SXDCTPM and SXDCTPM01? - are you using iSCSI? If so what speed? - Fibre-channel...? (If so what speed?) - is any of this VMware... etc. - how many files are you backing up? - how large (TB? PB?) are your shares? - what makes you think you are getting horrible performance, do you have a benchmark that you are comparing your performance? CIFS is slow to begin with, and it's also possible there are other constraints in your architecture, but you really haven't given us much information to work with. Mike On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Leonard, Matthew < matthew.leon...@atlasair.com> wrote: > EMC VNXe Best regards, Mike, x7942 RMD IT Client Services
