Our NBU master used to be on a Sun SPARC V490 running Solaris 9.
Very solid but also pretty costly. When we found a better use for the
V490 we looked around and finally settled with an HP DL385G2 running Solaris 10
x86 with 4GB of memory. The server is actually faster than the older
SPARC box and we haven’t had any reliability issues. We did manage
to get the same HP box to run NBU on Linux using Fedora core but this was not
an approved configuration and gave us no end of trouble. When Veritas
finally approved configurations running Solaris on X86 we jumped on it and
haven’t looked back since !!
Mark Glazerman
Desk: 314-889-8282
Cell: 618-520-3401
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Master server hardware - Solaris
I have had both windows and AIX
masters.
I like AIX better (could be some
favoritism here as I am an AIX admin), I boot the server less
often. Had to boot the windows master a little more then I liked.
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On Behalf Of Mellor, Adam A.
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:12 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Master server hardware - Solaris
I am Interested in asking the community thier opinions for what
hardware platform works best for master only netbackup servers.
We currently are running our master in a master media configuration
(with two additional media servers) and it is time to refresh the master server
hardware.
I am going to be performing some tests to benchmark some of the
hardware we may use for a replacement master only server. for this i am also
interested in some of the tests i can run to give an indication of the server
performance.
I was thinking of restoing the catalogue to the test hardware and
timing some of the more intensive commands such as bpimmedia and bplist. does
anybody have other or perhaps even better suggestions ?.
I'll post results as i complete tests tests if anybody is
interested.
At the moment it looks like i'll get to test the Sun M300, T5220
and one of the new Intel Nehalem systems.
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