On 5/19/14 4:06 PM, "Atom Powers" <atom.pow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As an avenue of deprecating a NetApp device we are investigating a block-only > SAN device. > That would mean using MS Windows 2012R2 to publish shares to clients: MS > Windows, > Mac OSX, Linux. The MS Windows Admins manage these file shares so Linux w/ > Samba > isn't an option. > > Does anybody have any insight into using MS Windows as a file server for NFS > shares? This is something of a "how long is a piece of string" question. Do you have any sort of loading numbers, performance expectations, client counts etc. ? As mentioned by Will, CIFS would probably be an easier/cleaner option... but that depends on your performance expectations. Remember, you're replacing a NAS, a dedicated share sharing appliance, with a server that, with all the best will in the world, is not designed to be a file sharing appliance. CIFS is not generally cited as a performance protocol. Tim -- Tim Kirby t...@kirbys.org
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