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Protocols that enable nondisruptive operations over SMB

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Along with the release of SMB 3.0, Microsoft has released new protocols to provide the capabilities necessary to support nondisruptive operations for Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB.

ONTAP uses these protocols when providing nondisruptive operations for application servers over SMB:

  • SMB 3.0

  • Witness