You lost me at the point where you cifs mount san devices.......

Doing share backups isnt very fast as the backup is validating security
stuff with dc's.

Would recommenr either mounting luns or install clients at the source.

Kind regards,
Karel
Op 16 aug. 2013 17:30 schreef "Zoltan Forray" <zforray AT vcu DOT edu> het
volgende:

> We are starting to experiencing performance issues on a server that acts as
> the "head" for multiple (31 currently) TSM nodes. This server CIFS mounts
> multiple departmental filesystems - all in various EMC SAN's.  Each
> filesystem is a different TSM node.
>
> The "head" server is running Windows 2012 server with 12GB RAM and
> 2-quad-core processor.
>
> Anyone out there something like this?  What are the realistic limits?  I
> have tried spreading the backup start times as much as I can.
>
> As expected, a lot of the time is spend scanning files - 1-node is >10M
> files.
>
> Thoughts?  Comments?  Suggestions?
>
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