Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification on NetBackup 5.1 & 6.5

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)
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Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium.eads DOT net

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From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:39 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Clarification on NetBackup 5.1 & 6.5

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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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org

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