limitation of streams
NetBackup 5220/5230 Appliance is preconfigured with 8 streams in total for the appliance. In many cases this is not a limiting factor with the notable exception of Oracle backup where the number of s...
Update ref you further e-mail in relation to number of streams for appliances:
If you search that guide you referenced (NetBackup_52xx_Appliance_CapacityPlanning_Performancetuning_260x.pdf) for the word "streams" .. you will see a few times where it is mentioned
Bottom of page 83 where 90 is used as an example - page 122 where it says if you are using tape out to limit it to 96 (so presumably if you are not you could use more)
Page 131 says:
Maximum I/O Streams’ count configuration of the storage pool. For the
NetBackup 5220/5230 series appliance-based storage pools, Symantec
recommends up to an optimal value of 98 streams per pool.
