Stability is more important than functionality. I'm familiar with the
6.5 feature set, and I'm excited about it's release, but I'm not so
excited about it that I'd recommend upgrading to it just after it comes
out, especially for companies where upgrading the downgrading is a major
ordeal, such as those who have to deal with validated systems. I'd take
6.0 MP4 over 6.5 or 6.5 MP1 any day. I'd let those who really need
those wizbang 6.5 features upgrade to it and test it out for me for a
while before I jump on it. ;) This has nothing to do with Symantec.
It's my standard policy for any major infrastructure package. So if you
adopt that mentality, I'd say I'll be waiting until AT LEAST Q1 2008
before upgrading to recommending an upgrade to 6.5.
I also concur with the comments that the upgrade from 5.1 to 6.0 was
major (from an infrastructure standpoint) and the upgrade from 6.0 to
6.5 is relatively minor in comparison.
---
W. Curtis Preston
Author of O'Reilly's Backup & Recovery and Using SANs and NAS
VP Data Protection
GlassHouse Technologies
________________________________
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff
Lightner
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:51 AM
To: Liddle, Stuart; Mike Wigington; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4
to6.0 MP4
A few reasons:
A long time ago it became clear that waiting for the next thing was a
good way of never moving forward because something is always in the
pipeline.
The next thing is often called "vaporware" because all the bells and
whistles they tell you it is going to have vaporize (disappear) in the
actual release.
Vendors don't always meet expected (or even announced) release dates for
new software.
You might actually have cycles now to do it that you won't have in the
future.
You may be wishing to implement new hardware in your environment (e.g.
we're getting Data Domain) and want to understand any differences the
new
software does to your existing hardware so you'll understand later what
was introduced by the new software and what was introduced by the new
hardware.
Given the major shift between 5.1 and 6.0 in the way NBU does things
upgrading to 6.5 later will likely not be as major a change (somewhat
like going from 4.5 to 5.1 wasn't that big a deal).
Anyway we're just preparing to take the plunge ourselves so I can't say
how easy it is. My opinions are formed mainly by reading this forum
and by what our (not Symantec) vendor says about it.
________________________________
From: Liddle, Stuart [mailto:liddles at amgen.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:19 PM
To: Jeff Lightner; Liddle, Stuart; Mike Wigington;
veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to
6.0 MP4
We have an environment that is under strict change control and if we are
going to upgrade we are going to wait just a bit longer for the version
that has more features in it. Why go for 6.0 now, when you might want
to do the upgrade to 6.5 in just a few months?
--stuart
________________________________
From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlightner at water.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:12 AM
To: Liddle, Stuart; Mike Wigington; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to
6.0 MP4
Why? I was under the impression 6.0 MP4 was fairly stable.
________________________________
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Liddle,
Stuart
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:00 PM
To: Mike Wigington; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to
6.0 MP4
yeah....wait for 6.5, that's what we are doing
--stuart
________________________________
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mike
Wigington
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:55 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Taking the plunge to upgrade from 5.1 MP4 to 6.0
MP4
Can anyone give advise on upgrading from NBU5.1 MP 4 to NBU6.0 MP4?
TIA,
Mike Wig
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