High Speed File Server (HSFS) does not appear to be load balancing

Products

• Data Loss Prevention Discover Suite

Issue/Introduction

Setting up a 10 node HSFS cluster, and it appears only 3 nodes participate (1 data, and 2 workers).  The rest seem to be idle while a scan is in progress. All workers are operating correctly and participate if done individually.

Cause

HSFS Cluster workload is divided by folders not number of files or data size.

Resolution

Balancing files by folders resulted in higher speed scanning.