Re: [Veritas-bu] Nbu 7.0
2010-07-15 08:07:16
As to not running on CentOS – The only
thing I know of off the top of my head that blows up on install is Oracle
products but that is simply because they put a routine in that tells it which
OSes they’re allowed to run on. You can certainly run Oracle
products on CentOS (unsupported by Oracle of course) by simply tweaking the
file that stores which OSes are allowed OR by modifying the /etc/redhat-release
file to make it say it is one of the supported RedHat versions.
Of course in my post I did also say that
running CentOS as your master server is a bad idea even if you could make it
run due to support issues.
I’d disagree with what you say about
the release cycle of CentOS – since its releases are tied to RHEL’s
it has the same release cycle (delayed somewhat). However, I’m
not suggesting it should be supported by Symantec or any other vendor.
Here we run RHEL for 95% of our Linux
needs (and 100% of our Production Linux needs). We have CentOS and
Debian installs for very specific one off systems or workstations.
It is fine to say to the user “it might work, but it will be unsupported”
but to try to pretend there is some inherent badness in other distros as
opposed to RHEL isn’t appropriate in my view. I know of one Atlanta based cable
network that runs Ubuntu/MySQL for most of what they do in the Linux arena (including
web servers) where they formerly ran HP-UX (UNIX). The folks there wouldn’t
be caught dead running RHEL or any RPM based distro.
From: JC Cheney
[mailto:joseph_cheney AT symantec DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:50
AM
To: Ed Wilts; Lightner, Jeff
Cc:
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Nbu 7.0
Not tested. To
compile and maintain the client code is a relatively simple process; to compile
/ test / qualify all of the media and master server functionality is a huge
undertaking.
It’s not just
a matter of “compile it and see if it runs”. You have to test all
of the supported peripherals such as robots, tape drives, storage arrays, etc.
and then try to maintain this on a platform that is built by a group of
volunteers around the world making who know’s what changes?
People such as
Redhat and SusE have very well defined hardware qualification plans and
detailed release cycles; this is just not the case with CentOS.
Add to this that
there are relatively few people who use CentOS in a datacentre environment
(compared to Redhat or SuSE that is) and it quickly becomes commercially
unviable.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: 14 July 2010 20:15
To: Lightner, Jeff
Cc:
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Nbu 7.0
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner AT water DOT com> wrote:
CentOS is compiled from RHEL source and is intended to
have full binary
compatibility with RHEL.
Intended - yes
In practice - mostly
There are cases out there where applications intended to run on a RHEL distro
will not install without modifications. The distributions, although based
on the same sources, are not the same. There are applications out there
TODAY that won't install or run correctly on CentOS but will install and run
correctly on RHEL.
RHEL is not self-hosting - in other words, it's possible that the binaries you
get can not be built with the sources you get. That's happened in the
past due to compiler bugs but I haven't heard of it happening lately.
CentOS, as a client, is supported by Symantec according to the current
compatibility list at ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/337048.pdf.
It's not supported as a master or media server. We don't know if it's
because they tested it and it failed, or if they tested it, it worked but they
don't want to support it, or they simply didn't test it.
In general, I would expect that you could make a NBU 7 master install on CentOS
and it would likely work. It will not be supported by anybody.
Depending on the tier of the hardware that you're running the master server on,
the list price for the x86-based Linux master/media runs from $5K to $12K and
that doesn't cover any clients or options nor the backup hardware or
media. A RHEL subscription can be had for $349 per year.
My personal opinion is that the $349 per year should not break the business
case.
.../Ed
Disclaimer: I'm a Red Hat Certified Engineer so I obviously have some bias to
go along with my experience.
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