Target sessions for physical devices is not a hard limit. You can set
the target sessions to 4 and have 8 physical devices. It will allocate 4
to each devices and then 1 stream to each device until max sessions for
server is reached. It should not go to another storage node because I am
sure the client is defined to the storage node. So that leaves the
version of networker or target sessions for AFTD as the culprit. I would
check with EMC if there is any bugs with the networker version you are
running and also check to see if target sessions for AFTD is a hard
number. 


EDWARD COTY
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-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Andrew Quintana
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:25 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Max Sessions ignored, Target Sessions seems to
be hard limit

I don't want to pass the additional sessions to another storage node,
just to the other AFTDs on the same node labeled for the same pool.  We
have four "Windows" pool volumes, five "Unix", and four "Database"
volumes.  Example:  if I set Target Sessions on all of them to 2, only
10 Unix sessions will run with the rest being queued and calling for
more volumes in that pool.  I don't want the remaining sessions being
assigned to another node or another pool, just spread among the volumes
in that pool.

-----Original Message-----


As far as I know, target sessions only work per storage node. Its not
until max sessions are reached until a save is refused and passed to
another storage node (next in list). But I could be wrong..

//Oscar

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