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October 17th, 2011 08:00

Networker 762:what is physical client parallelism?

Is this attribute use for vitual machine backup?

I've never seen this attribute ,i've always seen client parallelism on client resource..

What kind of impact can provide a wrong setting of physical client parallelism?

Thx in advance

-Nicola

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October 19th, 2011 13:00

Hi Nicola,

Yes, it is used for virtual machine backups and was added recently.  The purpose is to limit client parallelism on the host, not inside VM.

For example, if you have an ESX running 40 VMs and each VM has client parallelism of 4 (for guest backup), that’s a total of 160 save sessions on a single physical box.  Which is not a good idea.

By configuring physical client parallelism, you can limit total number of sessions on that physical system.  Also, it does require that the “physical host” be correctly assigned as it cannot know which physical host to count parallelism towards automatically.

Hope this helps.

Allan (and Vlad )

October 19th, 2011 14:00

Hi Allan, thank you very much for the answer.

I've upgrade from 7.4.4 to 7.6.2.2 then i've this problem: client  parallelism seems to be ignored:1 group with 1 client with 4 saveset and client  parallelism set to 4 requires 4 several tapes on 4 several tape drives(target  session is set to 20 as max sessions  on each of my 18 tape drives).Server  parallelism is 512 and group parallelism is 0.I've configured also 4 DataDomains  devices on 4 storagenodes (with target sessions set to 60).

I've opened an SR to the Emc support costumer service.I've hoped that  physical client parallelism cold be the reason but unflagging this attribute the  problem remains.
Any ideas ?

-Nicola

October 19th, 2011 16:00

I've found. I've on the same storage node physical tape drives and DDdevices. One DDdevice has target session set to 1. So all the other devices on the storage node is forced to work with target   session=1 https://solutions.emc.com/emcsolutionview.asp?id=esg107989

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