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For volumes larger than 100 GB, starting with version 5.14.0.0, the Data Manager Appliance can protect PVCs using multiple file system agent streams through a new PVC configuration setting. Adding this setting (ppdm.config.fsagent/streaming_mode: concurrent) to the PVC can improve performance and reduce backup latency by up to 50%.
The number of streams is determined by the controller and corresponds to multiple threads and DD Boost connections. To avoid the over-provisioning of streams and the resulting impact to CPU, the maximum number of streams is 8.