3.6.1 HP PolyServe Software for Windows File Serving Administration Guide (T5392-96019, July 2008)

Chapter4:ConfigureVirtualCIFSServers 19
Virtual CIFS Servers Providing Multiple Virtual File
Shares
MultipleVirtualFileSharescanbeassociatedwithaVirtualCIFSServer,
andmultipleVirtualCIFSServerscanbesupportedonaphysicalnode.
Also,anodecanhostmultipleactiveVirtualCIFSServerswhile
simultaneouslyservingasabackup forVirtualCIFSServersthatare
activeonothernodes.
In
thefollowingexample,thefirstnodeisprimaryforVirtualCIFSServer
VFS1andabackupnodeforVirtualCIFSServerVFS2.Thesecondnode
isprimaryforVirtualCIFSServerVFS2andisabackupforVFS1.Node
threeisabackupforbothVirtualCIFSServers.
Load Balancing for a Virtual File Share
AVirtualFileSharecanalsobeassociatedwithmorethanoneVirtual
CIFSServer,enablingloadbalancingtobeused.Inthefollowing
example,theVirtualFileSharesh1isassignedtotheVirtualCIFSServers
CIFS clients use a Virtual CIFS Server to access file shares d1 and d2
Ethernet
FC Fabric
\d1 and \d2
filesystems
Disk Array
Primary:
VFS2, file
share
d2
Backup2:
VFS1
Backup1:
VFS1
Backup2:
VFS2
Primary:
VFS1, file
share
d1
Backup1:
VFS2
Matrix Server