I'm thinking along those lines except I'm hoping there is a 6.0 MP5
coming up here pretty soon.

Q1 2007 - 6.0 MP4 Upgrade (Complete)
Q4 2007 - 6.0 MP5 ??
Q2 2008 - 6.5 MP  ??

Some of the functionality benefits with 6.5 make it look very appealing,
but not so much I plan on jumping in early.  However, if 6.5 or 6.0 MP5
fix the DSSU destaging issues I'm there like a bear.

-Jonathan
 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of King,
Cheryl
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:08 PM
To: Kirkevold, Matt; Bailey, Tim
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?)

Hey, it looks like the 6.5 version has a new SAN client and some other
disk related options.  We'll have to look into that.  We should install
6.0 to make sure we get everything implemented correctly, then go to
6.5.  That's what the more knowledgeable users are saying.  We don't
want to stay on 6.0 because it's not stable but we need to go through
the upgrade steps of 6.0.  So it will be like putting 6.0 and then 6.5
for maintenance.  Although 6.5 was announced it's not GA yet.  We may
even do 6.0 and MP4 (which is stable), then wait for 6.5 until 1st
quarter 2008.  We'll have to see what the early adopters have to say
about it.

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:27 PM
To: 'Justin Piszcz'
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 (was: Any takers yet?)

> Hopefully 6.5 won't be a nightmare like 6.0?  (until 6.0MP4 anyway)

6.0 had major core modifications.  6.5 isn't really that major - its
focus has been on disk functionality with the SAN client, Flexible Disk
Option, etc.  Nothing like EMM and scheduler changes that happened in
6.0

        .../Ed

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