One quick correction to the hardware below. We are going to be
converting 1 RHEL4 box from a network client to a SAN media server.
That is one of the 4 boxes that will house the 20 TB. We will not be
housing client data on the master. It will be a dedicated system.
Jeff
Jeff Cleverley wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm coming into an unique opportunity with regards to NetBackup. I'm
> going to get to start from scratch. No upgrades, imports, migrations,
> etc. This environment is currently running NB5.0 and I also manage a
> 5.1 backing up 70 TB of SAN storage. We want to stay with NetBackup and
> not switch to another vendor.
>
> The old environment we inherited is old (hardware and software), been
> managed by at least 4 different groups of administrators and
> transitioned between at least 2 companies. We know the database is not
> clean. We've decided we are going to set up everything new and when
> everything on the old one expires, we're going to just shut it all off :-)
>
> I've seen a number of threads about which versions to go to (6.0 MP4 vs
> 6.5 seemed the most common). Almost all of these dealt with upgrades.
> I don't want to start any of the which is better threads but would like
> to see what people would choose if they had the start from scratch
> option. From what I'm seeing, I'm leaning towards 6.0 MP4.
>
> Below is what we are going to be using and backing up:
>
> Master server - Dell 2950 RHEL4 (final details like release level still
> pending).
> Current SAN media servers - hpux 11.00 (L3000 x 2) and 1 hpux 11.11
> (rp3440), all fibre attached to the tape library.
> Network clients - 1 RH3 client.
> Tape library - Dell MS6000 with 4 fibre Gen 3 Ultrium drives.
> SAN switches - Brocade 4100 x 2 ( We will also run the EMC SAN
> connections through the switches).
>
> The plan is to start replacing the hpux servers with Dell servers. They
> will also do SAN backups. Everything else listed above will be new.
> There will be ~ 20 TB of SAN based data on the 4 servers. Licensing may
> be an issue as it seems to have changed. We currently have tier 1 hpux
> licenses for the master and SAN media servers, along with some unix
> network client licenses. We're trying to figure out the tier changes
> but I can't get my hands on a licensing guide. We have enough drive and
> SSO licenses for the new library.
>
> We don't do any database backups like Oracle, no Windows at all, no
> vaulting or remote replication, and don't currently have any reporting
> software like Aptare to deal with the latest revisions. It sounds so
> easy and simple it scares me :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
>
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Jeff Cleverley
Unix Systems Administrator
4380 Ziegler Road
Fort Collins, Colorado 80525
970-288-4611
jeff.cleverley AT avagotech DOT com
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