Author: Hesham.AFIFI at sgcib.com (Hesham.AFIFI AT sgcib DOT com)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:13:12 -0500
Hi All I am looking at the main difference between Veritas Netbackup 5.x and 6.x before doing the upgrade, can someone help with that Thanks Hesham Afifi ITEC- GLS- SYSTEMS-UNIX 212-278-6212 (office)
Author: steve.fogarty at gmail.com (Steve Fogarty)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:38:22 -0400
Here's an article you might want to give a read. http://adexisstorage.com/Newsletter/06/October/Practical Steve _____ Hi All I am looking at the main difference between Veritas Netbackup 5.x and 6.x
Author: pkeating at bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Keating)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:54:26 -0500
LOL..... Quote: Why wouldnt I want to upgrade my NetBackup software? Unless your applications are not ready for 6.0, there is not a really good reason to not upgrade. Plus NetBackup 6.0 is up to MP3
Author: JMARTI05 at intersil.com (Martin, Jonathan (Contractor))
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:05:41 -0500
"mature and stable" - hrm.... I'll get back to you on that one. Also - how about the $100 per client / $4000 per master/media server COST as a reason for not upgrading? /le-sigh -Jonathan ___________
Author: Steve.Haskins at bannerhealth.com (Haskins, Steve)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:19:25 -0700
I must be getting taken, $100 sounds cheap. ________________________________ "mature and stable" - hrm.... I'll get back to you on that one. Also - how about the $100 per client / $4000 per master/me
Author: JMARTI05 at intersil.com (Martin, Jonathan (Contractor))
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:28:10 -0500
Whoops ... that should have been a 5 in there not a 1!!! We just bought all new NBU6.0 licenses and paid the following - (everything in US$ w/ 1 year 24x7 maint) Master / Media - $4,435.32 Client - $
Author: Steve.Haskins at bannerhealth.com (Haskins, Steve)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:34:49 -0700
A little different to mine but comparable, wish they would standardize their support, pricing, etc. so everyone was on the same page but hey; it's capitalism at its finest. __________________________
LOL indeed. We still haven't upgraded to 6 here because so far as we can tell the scheduling problems still exist on this "mature and stable" version. It seems its about as "mature" as your average t
Author: pkeating at bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Keating)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:45:13 -0500
isn't pricing info confidential? ;o) -- --Original Message-- From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:JMARTI05 at intersil.com] Sent: December 11, 2006 12:28 PM To: Haskins, Steve; Paul Keating; v
Author: JMARTI05 at intersil.com (Martin, Jonathan (Contractor))
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:47:59 -0500
My understanding is that the more support you buy... the cheaper it gets. In my case, we're dropping support for years 2+ so we went the cheap route. :( The breakdown is Media Server - $3,401 / Suppo
Author: JMARTI05 at intersil.com (Martin, Jonathan (Contractor))
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:13:51 -0500
What ever happened to free and open markets? How exactly is hiding pricing from a vendor anyone could call up and get prices from helping anyone, except possibly the vendor to squeeze unsuspecting bu
support.veritas.com, which redirects to symantec's PC-oriented site Under "support for top products" choose NetBackup Enterprise Server The center of the page is taken up by NetBackup 6.0 Upgrade Po
Off the top of my head... 1. Scalability issues were addressed throughout. Multi-threaded operations in many places. Yes, there really are customers that have environments with over 100 media servers
Author: Steve.Haskins at bannerhealth.com (Haskins, Steve)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:13:57 -0700
My primary reasons in looking to upgrade the first quarter of 2007 is #2 as stated by Ed and also that media will no longer be dedicated to a storage unit/media server and will be capable of being ac
Author: pkeating at bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Keating)
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:51:20 -0500
I don't know if anyone can confirm or debunk this, but I was talkingwith a couple VAR dudes a couple weeks ago, and one of the techs wastelling me that the communications have changed with 6.0 as wel
Author: pkeating at bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Keating)
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:52:49 -0500
That *is* excellent.Also, for pure DR, it makes the media servers more like disposableappliances.....you don't have to worry much about anything on the mediaservers other than drive mapping. Paul --