Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Max active devices

In a DDS environment, use the Max active devices attribute, on the General tab of the Storage Node resource to define the maximum number of active devices for a storage node.

This attribute sets the maximum number of devices that NetWorker may use from the storage node in a DDS configuration. In large environments with media libraries that have a large number of devices, storage nodes might not have the ability to optimize all the drives in the library. The Max active devices attribute allows you to limit the number of devices that the storage node uses at a specified time, which allows the storage node to have access to all the devices in the library, but does not limit the storage node to the number of devices it can fully optimize.