CIFS clients experience a high latency due to CommVault FPolicy
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- CommVault SP20
- FPolicy
- Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)
Issue
- CIFS clients experience a high latency after implementing the CommVault FPolicy as an HSM solution
- The CommVault FPolicy external engine type is synchronous
- EMS log shows maxPendingReq and server disconnect message
Fri Dec 18 12:03:34 +0100 [node1: fpolicy: fpolicy.server.maxPendingReq:info]: Maximum outstanding requests for the FPolicy server "10.10.10.5" has reached.
Fri Dec 18 12:04:23 +0100 [node1 fpolicy: fpolicy.server.maxPendingReq:info]: Maximum outstanding requests for the FPolicy server "10.10.10.6" has reached.
Fri Dec 18 12:05:11 +0100 [node1: fpolicy: fpolicy.server.disconnect:error]: Connection to the FPolicy server "10.10.10.5" is broken ( reason: "FPolicy server is removed from external engine." ).
Fri Dec 18 12:05:11 +0100 [node1: fpolicy: fpolicy.server.disconnect:error]: Connection to the FPolicy server "10.10.10.6" is broken ( reason: "FPolicy server is removed from external engine." ).