I spoke with EMC Tech Support. I explained that I manually remove savesets
that have been cloned, after a certain number of days (using "nsrmm -d
-S"), and then reclaim storage using "nsrstage -C -V". 

>> This is nonsense. What do you want to stage if the save set has already been 
>> deleted?
AFAIR if you manually delete a save set it is deleted (space is released) right 
away.
Just take a few minutes and test it on a new device.


I asked about doing
this explicitly. That if Device #1 was full, and would savesets then
continue onto Device #2; they said yes. I said "what about when I manually
clear space on Device #1 using "nsrmm -d" and "nsrstage -C -V"; would NW
then be able to use the now free space on Device #1? They said that NW
would continue to use Device #2 until it filled up, and then would go back
and use Device #1, since it now had free space. 

>> Correct with respect to the sequence, wrong for the procedure (see above).


Are you saying that is NOT what would happen? That I would have to
manually re-label Device #1 before I can use it again? I haven't time (nor
the resources) to test that yet.

>> Yes, if you want to reuse the whole space, labeling would be the fastest 
>> operation.


All my (A)FTD devices are in/will be in the same pool. Is that not a good
idea? It's been working fine as AFTD device for the last few years.

>> It is o.k. if your network/data path is fast enough to feed enough data to 
>> the devices.

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