SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING APPLICATION MAXIMUM PARALLEL CLONE SESSIONS FOR STORAGE DEVICES

One example method includes identifying one or more source storages and a respective available stream count for each source storage, identifying one or more target storages and a respective available stream count for each target storage, negotiating a maximum stream count for a combination of storages that includes the source storages and the target storages, in which the negotiation of the maximum stream count is based on: (i) the respective available stream counts for each source storage; and (ii) the respective available stream counts for each target storage, and the negotiation of the maximum stream count comprises comparing each source storage available stream count to a respective available stream count of each of target storages, and the comparison is performed in ascending order of the respective available stream counts of the source storages, and creating parallel cloning sessions based on the negotiated maximum stream count.