> This is clearly explained in the installation guide.  You must do all 
your
> storage nodes before you do your server(s).

I've spent all this week migrating my NW server to new hardware (that was 
Tue), and the last 3 days replacing/upgrading hardware and VMware patches. 
Haven't had time to look at the NW notes yet. But I've done upgrades from 
7.2 through each version up to 7.6, so I was hoping that the process 
hadn't changed a whole lot with 8. Yes, I will read the notes before I 
actually do it (next weekend), but I was hoping I remembered the change in 
ordering correctly.

> Nope.  Oddly enough, the installation guide spells out that the 
*opposite*
> is supported -- an 8.x storage node *is* supported with a 7.6.x server.

Hmmm. Not sure that will help me. Unless things have radically changed, a 
restart isn't required when uninstalling 7.6.2 and installing 8, on a 
Windows storage node. But even so, I can only do that on scheduled 
downtime (just in case), which is next weekend. And with Windows, it never 
really hurts to restart, required or not ...

> We were running 7.6.2.2 on one of our two NetWorker servers, and it was
> not able to communicate with either nsrexecd or NMC once I took both of
> those to 8.0.1.5 on our NMC box.

I will keep an eye out.