> From: James Pratt <jpratt AT NORWICH DOT EDU>
> Reply-To: EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>, 
> James
> Pratt <jpratt AT NORWICH DOT EDU>
> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:04:15 -0500
> To: <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> Subject: [Networker] 7.4.2 -> 7.4.4 or 7.5 - upgrade thoughts/recommendations
> 
> Hi, we are currently running NW 7.4.2 on windows with no issues, and
> need to upgrade NW to get the advantage of the ESX/VCB licensing model
> so we can do more VCB backups.
> 
> We have an environment of about 50 nw clients, mostly windows, some
> linux, also 1 NDMP (Celerra), exch module, and mssql module ...
> 
> If you were I, would you upgrade to 7.4.4, or bite the proverbial bullet
> and just go to 7.5 now? (I'm wary of both, due to people's
> comments/issues that I've seen here since 7.5 was released, as well as
> 7.4.4).
> 
> Or... Would you wait, as I would prefer to do, until 7.5.1 is released?
> (I'm hoping this is soon, as EMC appears to be following the same
> release cycle as they did last year with 7.4).

If you can afford to wait, I suggest holding out until 7.5.1 is available.
That's probably what I will end up doing, although I am still on the fence
about it.

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