Implementing NFS Identity management and authentication It is important to understand the identity management and authentication methods before implementing NFS to your environment. Identity management will provide a location to store user information, tell where a user is. Authentication is a process that validates the identity of a user. Configure IP address allocationYou can specify whether the IP addresses in an IP address pool are allocated to network interfaces statically or dynamically. Load balancing SmartConnect load balances incoming network connections across SmartConnect Zones composed of nodes, network interfaces, and pools. The load balancing policies are Round Robin, Connection Count, CPU Utilization, and Network Throughput. Static or dynamic IP address allocation After a groupnet and subnet are defined in OneFS, the next step is configuring an IP address pool and assigning interfaces to participate in this pool. Dynamic failover Dynamic failover examplesIn order to understand Dynamic Failover, the following examples illustrate how IP addresses move during a failover. Access ZoneOneFS provides a single namespace while enabling multi-protocol access, such as NFS and SMB. Linux machines access the data using NFS; Windows computers access the data using SMB. There is a default shared directory (ifs) of OneFS, which lets clients running Windows, UNIX, Linux, or Mac OS X access the same directories and files. It is recommended to disable the ifs shared directory in a production environment and create dedicated NFS exports and SMB shares for your workload.