Balance network overview
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- Cluster administration
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Volume administration
- Logical storage management with the CLI
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NAS storage management
- Configure NFS with the CLI
- Manage NFS with the CLI
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Manage SMB with the CLI
- Manage file access using SMB
- SAN storage management
- Security and data encryption
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Data protection and disaster recovery
- Data protection with the CLI
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You can configure your cluster to serve client requests from appropriately loaded LIFs. This results in a more balanced utilization of LIFs and ports, which in turn allows for better performance of the cluster.
DNS load balancing helps in selecting an appropriately loaded data LIF and balancing user network traffic across all available ports (physical, interface groups, and VLANs).
With DNS load balancing, LIFs are associated with the load balancing zone of an SVM. A site-wide DNS server is configured to forward all DNS requests and return the least-loaded LIF based on the network traffic and the availability of the port resources (CPU usage, throughput, open connections, and so on). DNS load balancing provides the following benefits:
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New client connections balanced across available resources.
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No manual intervention required for deciding which LIFs to use when mounting a particular SVM.
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DNS load balancing supports NFSv3, NFSv4, NFSv4.1, SMB 2.0, SMB 2.1, SMB 3.0, and S3.