On 2007-11-20 10:51, Andrew Quintana revealed:

AQ> We have a master server and three storage nodes.  All backups are to
AQ> AFTDs, with cloning and staging to tape.  I tried setting the Target
AQ> Sessions on each of the AFTDs to one, leaving the Max sessions at the
AQ> default 512.  I would have thought that this would balance the number of
AQ> sessions to each device, with sessions being spread evenly amongst all
AQ> the valid devices until our server parallelism was reached.  I was
AQ> wrong.  Each AFTD will only run up to the number of sessions set as its
AQ> Target Sessions, and an alert shows up waiting for more valid devices
AQ> until the current sessions finish and another can take its place.  We're
AQ> nowhere near our server Parallelism set limit.

As far as I know, target sessions only work per storage node. Its not 
until max sessions are reached until a save is refused and passed to 
another storage node (next in list). But I could be wrong..

//Oscar

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