ONTAP still has to search all 18,456 folders, but it is only doing a simple find, not reading the entire contents of the folder to transmit to Windows. This is less CPU computationally intensive compa...ONTAP still has to search all 18,456 folders, but it is only doing a simple find, not reading the entire contents of the folder to transmit to Windows. This is less CPU computationally intensive compared to a typical home directory, and this is how performance is improved with Dynamic Home Directories. How to set up Dynamic Home DIrectories in Data ONTAP operating in 7-mode Documentation: How to set up Dynamic Home Directories in Clustered Data ONTAP or ONTAP 9
Applies to ONTAP 9.0-9.9 FlexGroup with CIFS workload FlexVol with CIFS workload NFS if in multiprotocol FlexGroup (Accessed through CIFS and NFS) Change Notify Issue Elevated CIFS latency, typically ...Applies to ONTAP 9.0-9.9 FlexGroup with CIFS workload FlexVol with CIFS workload NFS if in multiprotocol FlexGroup (Accessed through CIFS and NFS) Change Notify Issue Elevated CIFS latency, typically for WRITE operations, but also Create, Setattr, Open, Close Output of qos statistics volume latency show shows majority of latency in data column Latency may be seen on a single constituent steady or shift between constituent volumes in rapid succession if multiple directories are read or written to
