Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification on NetBackup 5.1 & 6.5
2007-12-12 11:37:45
That sucks...
So by the looks of the compatibility chart, you'll be okay going to 6.5. After that, you'll have some soul-searching to do since you said that these were also media servers. It's time for you to bring Symantec into the discussion so that you can plan for
post-6.5. You might be okay with them as SAN clients at 6.5 with a master server at 7.0 but that's really just a guess at this stage.
.../Ed
On 12/12/07,
WEAVER, Simon (external) <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net> wrote:
Hi
Ed
Yes,
can confirm its Windows 2003 on IA64 Servers. And yes, it most unusual !
(Enterprise and Datacentre Server versions only).
Thanks
Regards
Simon Weaver 3rd Line Technical Support
Windows
Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium
Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3
5PU
Email:
Simon.Weaver AT Astrium.eads DOT net
On 12/11/07, WEAVER, Simon (external) <
simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
wrote:
On page 15, point 94 it mentions Next
major or minor release following NBU 6.5 Master / Media Servers will no
longer be supported on Intel Itanium IA-64 hardware.
Now, is this telling me that I cannot
goto 6.5 now? Because we have loads of these boxes in place, that run on
5.1, and are San Media Servers.
NBU 6.5 is not a major version - it's considered by Symantec to be a
minor version. Besides, it's saying that that 6.6 or 7.0 (whichever
comes first) won't support IA-64 - it doesn't say that from your quote
anything about it not being supporting on 6.5. It also only applies to
Windows and Linux - the note definitely does not apply to HP-UX on IA64.
You sure you're running IA64 and not x64? They're drastically
different architectures... You'd be the first person I've heard of
that's running Windows on IA64...
Also, to clarify the position on VMWARE,
the document refers to NetBackup servers not supported. I take it, this
means SAN and Media Servers, as well as
Masters?
That is correct - media servers are not supported. My
interpretation is that anything that requires direct access to the tape drive
hardware will not be supported. This is the same as Solaris 10 zones -
they can't be media servers either. Simply put, if you have to install
the server package instead of the client package, it isn't supported in a
virtual machine.
-- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN,
USA mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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