EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
11/17/2009 07:19:32 AM:

> Citerar Rick Brode <rick AT BRODETRAINING DOT COM>:
> 
> > Dag Nygren wrote:
> >> fredag 13 november 2009 02:36:36 skrev  MIchael Leone:
> >>
> >>> ...
> >>> I could, of course, assign specific tape drives to specific pools, 
But I
> >>> thought for sure there was a way to do without hard-coding specific 
drives
> >>> to specific pools.
> >>>
> >> At least in 7.5.1 there is a "Max parallelism" in the pool settings 
> >>  that is supposed to do exactly that. Not quite sure in what 
> >> version  it got there though. Haven't tested it either
> > "Max parallelism" in the pool resource specifies the maximum number of
> > save sets that may be multiplexed to a volume in the pool.  It can
> > override a device's Target sessions and Max sessions.  For example, if
> > a device has "Target sessions" set to 6 and a pool has "Max
> > parallelism" set to 2, when any volume from that pool is mounted on 
the
> > device, no more than 2 save sets will be multiplexed on the volume.
> 
> Exactly. And that was the initial request :-)

That actually wasn't my initial request, however. I was concerned about 
the total number of drives a pool could use at one time, not the number of 
savesets multiplexed onto any one volume, or at any one time. 

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