Re: [Networker] 28 Storage Nodes

Terry,

What documentation would this max be specified?  Admin guide, install guide,
power-edition ...

thanks - John.

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Lemons [mailto:lemons_terry AT EMC DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:14 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] 28 Storage Nodes


Hi John

You've hit a scaling problem with NetWorker, one that is particularly
painful on its Windows platform.  In your environment, your NetWorker server
master process [nsrd] must control (14*6) [DDS]+ 14*1 [local tape drive(s)]
= 98 nsrmmd processes.  Check the documentation, but I'm pretty sure that
NetWorker V6.1.1 does not support that many.  Also check V6.1.3 (and, maybe,
V6.2) to see if that limit has been increased in those versions.

Good luck!
tl

Terry Lemons
CLARiiON Applications Integration Engineering
        EMC²            
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ballinger, John M [mailto:john.ballinger AT PNL DOT GOV]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:56 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] 28 Storage Nodes


We have a NetWorker 6.1.1 Backup Server on Win2k that runs fine with a
limited number of backups but fails with all kinds of network-error
appearing problems if you go above.

We have 28 storage nodes - 14 of these are on the SAN sharing via DDS 6 tape
drives on an ADIC Scalar 1000
and the other 14 have locally attached tape-drives.

So we think the problem is with some resource on the win2k NetWorker backup
server.
Specifically the number of tcp connections.

Has anyone seen this or have any ideas of how to confirm it / and /or fix
the problem?

thanks - John

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