Hi all,
we are currently discussing how to balance heavy NFS v3 loads on our 4-node cluster.
It seems to boil down to using off-box DNS balancing to distribute the NFS-traffic to the least used node, but only works works for new connections.
What I found really interesting is the now deprecated feature of LIF rebalancing.
Can anyone tell me why it has been deprecated as per ONTAP 9.3 release:
"The automatic LIF rebalancing feature, which allowed LIFs to automatically migrate to a less-used port based on the load balancing weights assigned to the LIFs, is deprecated from ONTAP 9."
The only downside I can see in LIF rebalancing is the fact that LIFs might not be home anymore which could be confusing.
What am I missing here?
Thanks for any insight.
Peter