Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification on NetBackup 5.1 & 6.5
2007-12-13 01:28:35
Understood Ed. Yes,
I think it was a decision not taken lightly, with drastic results at the end.
For the next 2 years we should be ok, plus we will be refreshing H/W in
2009/10.
Fingers crossed
!
Thanks for your
assistance.
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
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.
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