- SMB Transparent Failover enables maintenance operations on the Azure NetApp Files service without interrupting connectivity to server applications storing and accessing data on SMB volumes. To support SMB Transparent Failover, Azure NetApp Files now supports the SMB Continuous Availability shares option for use with SQL Server applications over SMB running on Azure VMs. This feature is currently supported on Windows SQL Server. Azure NetApp Files doen't currently support Linux SQL Server. This feature provides significant performance improvements for SQL Server. It also provides scale and cost benefits for [Single Instance, Always-On Failover Cluster Instance and Always-On Availability Group deployments](azure-netapp-files-solution-architectures.md#sql-server). See [Benefits of using Azure NetApp Files for SQL Server deployment](solutions-benefits-azure-netapp-files-sql-server.md).
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