vSAN File Services SMB connections are not being balanced throughout all nodes

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

When using vSAN File Services and using SMB for shares, each share is only served from a container on a single host. You may see the alert in vSAN Skyline health for:

"Current SMB Connections (####) to the file server exceed the limit (200)"

Environment

vSAN with vSAN File Services Enabled using SMB shares

Cause

vSAN File Services does not currently serve SMB shares from multiple hosts. 

Resolution

Create multiple shares and limit the clients per share so that no more than 200 clients connect at a time. Each share will be served from another host and not exceed the connection limit.

Additional Information

If the alert is being caused by dead connections please see KB 335205.