PowerScale OneFS: macOS Client Performance and User Experience Optimization

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  OneFS and macOS
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  Audience
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  Revisions
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  We value your feedback

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  On the PowerScale OneFS Cluster
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  On the macOS client system
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  On the network switches

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  Network storage protocols
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  SMB3 Multichannel

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  Apple software driver problems
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  Updating maxqueuelen

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  Disabling Apple SMB extensions in OneFS
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  About Apple SMB extensions
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  Disabling Apple extensions on the PowerScale cluster
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  Increasing SMB credits in OneFS

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  Boot arguments
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  Increase network memory allocation
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  Configure ServerPerfMode (Intel Macs only)
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  Appending Boot Arguments

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  Defaults command
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  .DS_Store files on network shares
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  Viewing com.apple.desktop.services

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  TCP delayed_ack
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  Delayed ack
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  Changing delayed_ack with sysctl
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  /etc/sysct.conf

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  /etc/nsmb.conf
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  SMB signing
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  SMB session signing
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  SMB change notifications
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  Force SMB protocol version
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  Enabling alternate data streams (named streams)
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  Prefer wired connections for SMB multichannel
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  Example /etc/nsmb.conf

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  Spotlight search
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  Disable Spotlight index of a mounted volume
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  Enabling Spotlight search
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  Performing Spotlight searches of network volumes

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  Ethernet flow control

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  Where to start?
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  Reduce complexity
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  Simplify the client
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  Observe macOS network statistics

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  smbutil output
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  Observe SMB3 multichannel

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  Dell Technologies documentation
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  Apple KB Articles