Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Master server

Boris,

I currently have Windows 2000 master server with six additional media servers on a HP ESL9595 16 SDLT tape drive library and a HP MSL5052SL 4 SDLT tape drive library backing up 330+ Windows clients backing up 50TB a week. I am at Netbackup 6.51. The master has four 733MHz processors and 2.5GB RAM and it performs fine. I did have to up the RAM by .5GB when I upgraded from 5.1 to 6.51. The master even backs up 25 clients.

With this said, I plan on upgrading the hardware but I waited until the 6.5.1 upgrade to start the project and will stop using the master as a media server.

Regards

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Boris Kraizman
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 8:08 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows Master server

Hi Folks,

Need some advise, I have master server on Windows 2003, two more other Windows media servers, two Sun Solaris media servers in the mix, two physical sites, two tape libraries with LTO-3 tape drives. There are around 250 backup clients with total 30T in data. It performs well so far, and it keeps growing in number of clients and data size. I just started wondering when I should see that the Windows master server start choking or there is enough room to grow further and maybe consider more disk based backups, add more media servers.
Does anybody have such experience to run master servers on Windows with a lot of clients?

Thank you,
Boris

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