Hi Justin,

Sorry for a brief e-mail (I'm about to head off for the weekend) ....

Are you seeing any specific issues with your networker servers? And what 
version of networker do you have installed on your servers?

>From my experience, we have 2 datazones running around 500 clients each ... we 
>originally had a single datazone with around 700 clients and it was having 
>issues, so we split it in two, and they have both grown over time .... I 
>wouldn't say that the number of clients was the specific issue with the 
>environment, the main problems were caused by the fact that we had a number of 
>clients that were configured to backup every 15 minutes, and others ever hour. 
>This was putting a considerable load on the media database / indexes and jobs 
>database. Our environment has stabilized dramatically since we have gotten rid 
>of the 15 minute and hourly backups

Networker 8 has supposedly made some improvements in the number of 
clients/devices/etc that it can handle in a single datazone, although we are 
only in the planning stage to move to 8 at the moment 



Mat


-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Roberts, Justin (GE, Appl & Light)
Sent: Friday, 14 December 2012 10:24 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Looking for large Networker environments

We switched to Networker in the last year and we've experienced a lot of 
performance issues that we've worked through.   I keep asking EMC to get me in 
touch with another customer with a large environment so we can talk, and they 
keep "forgetting" to arrange it.

I'm running two Networker servers and I think I'm pushing one of them too hard 
(although the other isn't that far behind).   Wanted to see if anyone else is 
running a Networker server this large or if I'm just crazy for trying.

Largest Server:
Windows 2008 R2 64bit w/ 6 CPU's and 8GB RAM
Clients: ~2000 configured
Groups: ~400 (ranging from every hour to once a week) Storage Nodes: 
3+networker server itself Backup media:  3 Data Domain's and 4 Avamar Grids
Backup types:    Filesystem/RMAN/SAP/MSSQL/NDMP/VADP

Justin M Roberts
GE Appliances and Lighting
TAS Midrange Services

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