Sharing Your SAN over Ethernet

In cases where direct Fibre Channel access to the SAN is not available or desired from your clients, it is possible to use File Sharing Services such as AFP or SNB to reshare the volume or portions of the SAN volume over Ethernet. Remember that the file server must be directly connected via Fibre Channel to the SAN in order to reshare out files over Ethernet. Use Server Admin (Applications/Server) to configure and enable sharing services on the File Sharing Server.

File Sharing Tested Maximums

Component	Maximum	Tested Maximum
AFP server	Number of connected users	1000
AFP server	Shareable volume size	16 TB
AFP server	Number of files per volume	250 million
AFP server	Number of share points	255
SMB server	Number of open files	1,000
SMB server	Number of connected users	1,000