On 11/16/2006 4:46 PM, Rajmund Siwik wrote:
> I have Sun Fire v40z server which will be my NetBackup server.
> 
> It will be connected to Adic i2000 library with LTO-3 drives.
> 
> My backups in most part will be ndmp from NetApp.
>  
> 
> What OS would be better?
> 
> Solaris or Linux RedHat?

Solaris.  Veritas supports both, but you do have to look carefully at 
which options are supported on which platform.

RHEL is fairly new to Veritas and I would expect that long-term, Solaris 
won't be as popular and Linux will take over (so says the man with the 
RHCE!) but for now, I think Veritas still develops and tests on Solaris 
first and then ports & validates it all on other Unixes.

Our main environment is on Solaris but we do have a smaller satellite 
office with a RHEL master (there's no other Unix at that site).  It just 
went into production so I don't have much experience with it for the 
gotchas yet.  We do know that tuning information seems to be bit harder 
to locate than for Solaris.  I think that will be expected for a while yet.

        .../Ed

-- 
Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org