Did we ever establish whether or not Power Edition likewise bypasses the
TCP/IP stack when communicating with the storage node servers? Do they
likewise need to be running Power Edition to enjoy this feature?

Incidentally, we, too, are running 6.1.1, and it identifies our version
as the Power Edition even though we ARE running the Network edition.
This must be a bug in 6.1.1. I've never bothered to worry about it,
though. I think I contacted Legato about this once and they told me to
remove and re-install the licenses, but I never bothered to. Seemed like
too much work for something that isn't causing a problem.

George
George.Sinclair AT noaa DOT gov

Craig Ruefenacht wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My original question about Power Edition vs. Network Edition had to do with
> licensing and whether the binaries for the two were in fact the same.
> Thanks to the many posts which explained my answer, as well as provided some
> insight into the difference between the two.  Documentation on Power Edition
> seems to be lacking.
>
> The upshot of this thread was:
>
> 1. Network Edition and Power Edition are in fact the same binary, at least
> from v6.0 onward.
>
> 2. What version you run is based on your enabler codes.  We have a Network
> Edition enabler code (and always have had that enabler code).  When I
> upgraded from Networker v6.1 to v6.1.3, I didn't change the enabler codes.
> Prior to the upgrade, nwadmin said that we were running Power Edition.
> After the upgrade nwadmin said we were running Network Edition.  Thanks to
> Davina Treiber who mentioned a case where a customer had a Networker Network
> Edition enabler code and all, but Networker identified itself as Power
> Edition.  It would appear that I had the same situation when running v6.1.
> We never purchased Power Edition, but for some unknown reason, our v6.1
> install said it was Power Edition.  Upgrading to v6.1.3 seemed to have fixed
> whatever identity crisis Networker was experiencing.
>
> 3. Power Edition seems to be mostly useful when backing up data that is on
> the same machine as the Networker Server itself.  The advantage is that
> Power Edition seems to skip the TCP/IP stack (going to localhost), which
> enables it to have better performance.  In our situation, that would be
> beneficial to us in about 1/4 of our backups, but the current speed of
> Networker Network Edition is sufficient for us to not justify the cost of
> Power Edition (someone mentioned $22,000).
>
> Craig Ruefenacht
> UNIX Systems Administrator
> USANA Health Sciences, Inc.
> http://www.usanahealthsciences.com
>
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