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Re: [Networker] 7.2 upgrades...
2010-03-14 16:52:19
tkimball wrote:
We went from 7.1.3 + AlphaStor to 7.4.4 and no AlphaStor *cheer*. The version
choice was made over a year ago, based on Stan's experience with it on Sun
hardware.
I've been overall pleased with the new version, in particular how much easier
library management is (compared to AlphaStor anyway). I'm still poking and
prodding at the GUI to see how far I can take it, and how to document
procedures for our Ops group.
Right now my only gripe is that 7.6 came out at the wrong time (final eval
before rollout) otherwise my NMC server would have been that instead of 7.4.4.
Now I'm waiting until at least June before getting back something similar to
the old nwadmin.
Most of our troubles come from old Windows boxes, even before the upgrade (W2K
Server and AdvServer), though we've now had one incident where the Adv_file
devices started unmounting but would not re-mount (said it was not in media
db!). Bouncing the software fixed that, it had been running for almost a month.
Yaron, can you give details regarding what your DBO issues are? I've not seen
any throughput issues (actually that's been better, now that the Server itself
also went from E450 to T2000). However, our disk array is 1 Gig FC so may not
be able to help.
Our setup is AFTD which is located on a Sun X4500 (Thumper) and the
tape library is connected to a T1000. Staging from the x4500 to the
T1000 is performing poorly compared to the old setup (a Clariion AX150
which was directly connected to the T1000). I suspected that this was
related to LGTsc30475 (aka 30475nw "Cloning is slow from the local to
remote device"). I was hoping that this will be solved by 7.5.2, but
after upgrading this morning, things are quite the same.
The issues we had (on previous versions) were:
. "duplicate name; pick new name or delete old one" (on 7.2.2)
upgraded to 7.3.4
. Owner notification bug (on 7.4.3).
. LGTsc24106 (on 7.4.4). (volretent) Patched a few binaries.
. Some nsrck bug (on 7.4.5) (nsrck hang on unknown clients unrelated
to AFTD). Patched some binaries.
. "Failed to fetch the saveset(ss_t) structure for ssid" (on 7.5.1).
Moved to 7.5.1.7.
--TSK
evilensky AT gmail DOT com wrote:
Hi,
So what's the latest word on upgrades from 7.2? Is 7.6 a viable
option or is 7.4/7.5 more "fully cooked"? We're not really looking
for features so much as support for the latest client platforms and
stability. We're not going to be spending much money on upgraded
hardware either, so an in-place upgrade is the most likely. Thanks in
advance for any opinions/observations.
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