SMB application performance degradation when Oplock is disabled
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- SMB/CIFS
Issue
- After migrating from third-party storage to NetApp, application analysis processing experiences significant delay
- File read operations required by the application take substantially longer on NetApp storage
- Third-party storage: approximately 10 minutes
- NetApp storage: more than 1 hour
- Workload involves reading a large number of files over SMB
