Mark's post about converting a standalone master to clustered prompted me to post this. Our current master server is standalone, physical, RHEL4, NBU 6.5.3. Since Symantec will now support virtual ma
Author: "Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson AT Staples DOT com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:28:09 -0600
Massive data transfer through virtual HBA is reportedly difficult. Bare metal might be better. If this is a true Master Server, not a Media Server, I'm going to guess there's no issues. If this, howe
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Dean <dean.deano AT gmail DOT com> wrote: Mark's post about converting a standalone master to clustered prompted me to post this. Our current master server is standal
Thanks guys. Just to clarify, we have no intention of doing any backups to the master server, either to disk or tape. All of the backups will be performed by physical media servers. Having said tha
Author: Boris Kraizman <sysadminzone AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:34:41 -0400
I was able to duplicate my Windows master server as a VM with no problems and even to see some tape drives, but even now with vSphere ESX 4.0, you should be able to do Direct Path I/O, then you can a