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The NAS Protection Engine is deployed on the selected VMware vCenter, and Data Manager registers the Protection Engine. The NAS Protection Engine hosts the NAS agent and FSA.
A NAS Protection Engine can protect multiple NAS assets simultaneously by hosting separate containerized agents for backup and restore operations on individual shares. Data Manager selects a Protection Engine for each protection job based on availability.
Enter a new value (1 to 256) for Maximum Streams and click Save. The default value is 8 streams.