High CIFS latency when volume/qtree or CIFS share have oplocks disabled
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- CIFS
Issue
- CIFS clients may experience decreased throughput or increased latency
- More IOPS may be observed on CIFS shares
- No Latency from the same share on a different storage array when compared to that from NetApp storage.
- An alert may be reported in Active IQ:
- "Vserver <vserver> contains one CIFS share or Qtree <share_or_qtree_list> that has oplocks disabled."