We use SLES 9 on a few of our media servers (rest are Solaris 8). I personally
am not a fan of RPM based Linux distros (Project was using Suse before I came
on board). The question really shouldn't be which one do any of you guys use,
but which one do *I* (as in you) prefer. I know Veritas will list Red Hat as a
supported platform. But there is no reason why you couldn't run Netbackup on
Red Hat, Suse, Debian, Slackware, or Gentoo (my favorite). If Linux isn't
really your strong suite, go Red Hat or Suse. RPM based distros can be easy to
setup, and configure...but can be hell when it comes to upgrading something as
simple as glibc. Or you could do something such as Gentoo, which could be
daunting for the less experienced Linux Admin. But will offer the greatest
speed / performance due to *everything* being compiled and installed from
source. Gentoo may be a difficult step to install, configure, and administer
for first-timers, especially in a production environment. But once you learn
the wonders that is portage, you'll wonder how you ever got along with out it.
There really shouldn't be a reason why you couldn't get netbackup to install
and run on pretty much any Linux distro. Netbackup is not an RPM or DEB
package...so it's your choice.
But, we've had success with Suse.
And please, no flames on yum or apt....I know, I opened a can of worms.
--
Mike Sponsler
Northrop Grumman
Michael.Sponsler at ngc.com
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From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces
at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Whelan, Patrick
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:25 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Linux media server recommendations
Does anyone have any suggestions for Linux media servers?
Regards,
Patrick Whelan
NetBackup Specialist
Architect & Engineering
+44 20 7863 5243
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