Which SmartConnect policies are used for workloads that have short lived connections such as HTTP and FTP?

What happens to worker threads running on the same node when there is an excessive number of workers running at the same time?

A four node F800 Isilon cluster running OneFS 8.2.1 has a dedicated subnet and IP pool for SMB data traffic.
SmartConnect Advanced license is applied. The SMB IP pool consists of LACP aggregated. 10GigE interfaces from all the nodes.
What is the maximum number of SmartConnect Service IPs recommended for the SMB subnet?

A potential customer requires 4 PB of usable capacity to store media files. The workloads are a combination of streaming video delivery and long term archive of video assets.
There is very little space available in the customer's datacenter, so physical density is very important. The customer is concerned about performance impact and potential data loss when using 3 TB or larger drives.
What Isilon capabilities can address the customer's concerns?

Your customer is a major metropolitan newspaper. Your previous discussion centered on their storage requirements, and you asked them some of the Top Ten questions.
They responded: "Well, it's not the prettiest or most high-tech solution...we use Secure FTP (SFTP) to upload the stories and images and put them in a workflow that formats them for printing in the newspaper." "What really worries us is the fact that our Storage Array from your competitor is going out of maintenance in 120 days, and they are dropping support for Secure FTP. This isn't even considered in our D/R Plan. Do you have a better solution with Isilon?" Which top 10 questions led to this information?