Newer versions support both.
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of George Sinclair
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:02 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Max server parallelism?
Sorry. We're using 7.2.2, so I'm a bit behind on the enhancements . :-[
In my release, I don't see a 'Max sessions', only a 'Target sessions'.
Do newer releases replace "Target sessions' with 'Max sessions' or somehow
support both?
George
Siobhán Ellis wrote:
> I didn't say max TARGET sessions, I said Max sessions. It is now possible to
> set that as an absolute. By default, it is 512 per device.
>
> Siobhan
>
>
> On 1/11/07 1:20 AM, "George Sinclair" <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV> wrote:
>
>
>> Max target sessions is not absolute, server parallelism is. If for
>> example, you only have one appendable tape for the given pool, and you
>> set max sessions on all affected devices to, say 8, but your running
>> group(s) consist of 50 save sets, then there's nothing to prevent NW
>> from upping the sessions from 8 to 10 or 12, maybe even higher. I've
>> seen NW do this any number of times. Typically, NW will try to down the
>> numbers back to the max sessions as soon as it can, but it might take a
>> while. Of course, it does abide by this if it has another volume it can
>> load, and then once that's maxed out if it has another, etc., etc. but
>> if it needs more and there are no more tapes and/or available devices
>> then it can and will up the sessions on one or more as necessary.
>>
>> George
>>
>> Siobhán Ellis wrote:
>>
>>> You can, by defining max sessions per device - laborious, but will work
>>>
>>>
>>> On 31/10/07 1:19 PM, "Curtis Preston" <cpreston AT GLASSHOUSE DOT COM>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Now, if we could just limit the number of sessions by storage node.
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> W. Curtis Preston
>>>> Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
>>>> VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT
>>>> EDU] On
>>>> Behalf Of George Sinclair
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:13 PM
>>>> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>>>> Subject: Re: [Networker] Max server parallelism?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to all who responded. We've given this horse a very nice burial
>>>> with all respects. He would be ashamed to come back. :-D
>>>> Seriously, this was all very useful information that I just manage to
>>>> forget eventually. Now, I feel better as I have to add more drives to
>>>> one of our libraries on one of the snodes, and I was initially concerned
>>>>
>>>> about maxing out on sessions. Looks like we have a ways to go, though,
>>>> before that will happen.
>>>>
>>>> George
>>>>
>>>> Davina Treiber wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Absolute maximum server parallelism is 512. This is what you get with
>>>>> Enterprise Edition, and you could probably achieve it with Power
>>>>> Edition too if you added enough storage node licences.
>>>>>
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