We went from 7.1.3 + AlphaStor to 7.4.4 and no AlphaStor *cheer*.  The version 
choice was made over a year ago, based on Stan's experience with it on Sun 
hardware.

I've been overall pleased with the new version, in particular how much easier 
library management is (compared to AlphaStor anyway).  I'm still poking and 
prodding at the GUI to see how far I can take it, and how to document 
procedures for our Ops group.

Right now my only gripe is that 7.6 came out at the wrong time (final eval  
before rollout) otherwise my NMC server would have been that instead of 7.4.4.  
Now I'm waiting until at least June before getting back something similar to 
the old nwadmin.

Most of our troubles come from old Windows boxes, even before the upgrade (W2K 
Server and AdvServer), though we've now had one incident where the Adv_file 
devices started unmounting but would not re-mount (said it was not in media 
db!).  Bouncing the software fixed that, it had been running for almost a month.

Yaron, can you give details regarding what your DBO issues are?  I've not seen 
any throughput issues (actually that's been better, now that the Server itself 
also went from E450 to T2000).  However, our disk array is 1 Gig FC so may not 
be able to help.

--TSK



evilensky AT gmail DOT com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So what's the latest word on upgrades from 7.2?  Is 7.6 a viable
> option or is 7.4/7.5 more "fully cooked"?  We're not really looking
> for features so much as support for the latest client platforms and
> stability.  We're not going to be spending much money on upgraded
> hardware either, so an in-place upgrade is the most likely.  Thanks in
> advance for any opinions/observations.
> 


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