Renee,

Can you elaborate on the performance issue you saw with a Master on  
the Thumper?
We're currently testing one for that role.

Thanks.

Bill

On Apr 10, 2008, at 7:39 AM, rcarlisle wrote:

> Jon,
>
> It really has nothing to do with the size...just the performance.   
> It is not
> the x86 architecture that Sybase has an issue with as far as I know  
> because
> we have only seen the issue on the Thumper.  I just know that  
> anytime we
> have put Sybase on the Thumper the performance has been bad.  Someone,
> somewhere, may have had a good experience with it...but I haven't  
> seen it
> yet so I can't recommend it.  Also is the BMR factor I mentioned.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Bousselot [mailto:jon-bousselot AT pacbell DOT net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:46 AM
> To: rcarlisle
> Cc: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Master Server on a SUN Thumper?
>
> Renee,
> I thought that EMM database was small, but I guess the size depends  
> on a
> lot of things.
>
> Can you give more information about why the Sybase database doesn't  
> like
> Solaris x86?  I've considered the thumper for an almost-all-in-one
> solution myself, but never thought EMM BMR would be a problem. For  
> Sparc
> BMR, I was going to use a V100, and for the windows side, a Dell  
> something.
>
> -Jon
>
>> NOOOOOOOO.....sorry, just feel pretty adamant about it.  We have  
>> had a
>> couple of customers insist on trying it and have always had to back  
>> them
>> out.  The Thumper does not seem to react very well to the Sybase  
>> database
>> and you get lousy performance.  Another thing to note...the x86  
>> platform
>> does not support the BMR database, so if you want to take advantage  
>> of
> that
>> free functionality in 6.5 you can't on the Thumper.
>>
>> We are a Sun and a Symantec partner, so I fully support Sun systems  
>> and
> love
>> them as Master/Media servers...just not that one.
>>
>> Renee Carlisle
>> ServerWare Corporation
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of  
>> Jeff Bryer
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:59 PM
>> To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Master Server on a SUN Thumper?
>>
>> We're currently running our NBU 6.0 master server on a SUN V240
>> with an XRaid for disk staging.  How viable would it be to run
>> our master server (we'd be willing to upgrade to 6.5) on a SUN  
>> Thumper
>> (the Sun Fire X4500)?
>>
>> One integrated box for disk staging and our master server (we don't  
>> run
>> media servers) sounds appealing.  We already have a Thumper in  
>> production.
>> But I've never run the NetBackup server on Solaris/x86.
>>
>> The Thumper would provide enough staging space for the duration of  
>> the
> lease
>> on the box.
>>
>> -- Jeff Bryer bryer AT sfu DOT ca Systems Administrator (778) 782-4935 IT 
>> Infrastructure, Simon Fraser University
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