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title: "Continuously Available SMB Shares"
slug: "continuously-available-smb-shares-tg"
updated: 2026-10-28T01:54:23Z
published: 2026-10-28T01:54:23Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/continuously-available-smb-shares-tg"
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# Continuously Available SMB Shares

VAST Cluster supports continuously available SMB shares.

If an SMB share is *continuously available*, it allows SMB 3.0 clients to request use of persistent file handles and keep their connections to this share in case of a failover event.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
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> This feature requires that the client uses SMB 3.0.

You can enable or disable continuous availability for an SMB share when you create or edit a view policy for the view that exposes the SMB share:

- In VAST Web UI, enable or disable the SMB continuous availability option in the Add Policy or Update Policy dialog (Element Store -> View Policies -> choose to create or edit a view policy).

The current status of continuous availability per view policy is displayed in the Continuous Availability column of the View Policies page in VAST Web UI.