Choosing the Right FSx Variant
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A quick decision framework across the four FSx variants based on protocol and workload requirements.
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Key points
- •Windows File Server: only choice needing genuine SMB + AD-integrated permissions
- •NetApp ONTAP: preserves existing ONTAP tooling/scripts/replication workflows
- •OpenZFS: Linux workloads already built around ZFS snapshot/clone semantics
- •Lustre: purpose-built for massively parallel HPC/ML training read throughput