Hello,
we have the following problem: We have two locations one in Austria and one in Germany. Our fileserver is located in Austria. Between these two loacations we are using a Cisco WAN opitmizer infrastructure so that file access from Germany gets optimized to our server in Austria. All of our German clients are using Windows 7. Our fileserver is using Windows 2008R2. We have noticed that Windows 7 in combination with Windows 2008 R2 is very chatty. So we have massive problems in optimizing that traffic.
Furthermore we have contact Cisco for an official statement about this topic. The official statement was the following: "As you may know file create/open is a synchronous operation which means the client needs to wait for the server to return status. The WAAS (or any other device from any other vendor) cannot optimize or eliminate this and thus eliminate the delay."
Why are Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 so chatty and sending such a big amount of SMB2 create statements? Why does it need to recursivly read the whole folder structure as can be seen in the create requests? Is it not possible to change that behaviour?
Please advice!
Many Thanks to your answers!