This page provides information about connecting large capacity volumes with multiple storage endpoints.
Large capacity volumes with multiple storage endpoints provide access to the same volume through six IP addresses. While you can mount all of your clients to just one of these IP addresses, it is recommended to spread your clients over all six IP addresses to distribute the load they generate and achieve higher aggregated throughput.
The best approach is to manually group the clients into six groups, and mount each group of clients to one of the six IP addresses. This approach lets you control the exact group of clients that connect to a single IP address which can be useful if you want to fine-tune the load-balancing.
Another approach is to set up round-robin DNS, where the same DNS name maps to all of the six IP addresses. Clients then use the DNS name to mount the volume. While the clients will be distributed across the six IP addresses, you cannot control which group of clients connect to the same IP address.
For SMB access, NetApp Volumes automatically registers all six IP addresses under the volume's computer name in Active Directory DNS. SMB clients then look for the name when mapping the volume.
For NFS access, you have to manually create a DNS entry and add the six IP addresses to it. For more information on how to add a DNS record, see Cloud DNS. NFS clients resolve the DNS name to an IP while mounting the volume.
For more information on large capacity volumes, see About volumes.