The Dell multipath client driver can be of considerable performance benefit in the following scenarios:
- Workloads with streaming reads and writes to and from individual high-powered servers
- When an NFS client is nearing the maximum throughput of a single node
- Streaming reads and/or writes to multiple files within a single NFS mount
- NVIDIA SuperPOD and/or BasePOD AI workloads
Conversely, the following workloads will not typically benefit substantially from the multipath driver:
- Traditional MPIO workloads
- Multiple concurrent writes to the same file across multiple nodes
- Single file streaming workloads like M&E content delivery