Thanks, I will be having a meeting with
Symantec tomorrow to get their opinion. We are 90% windows and will be nice to
have my master and media all in windows.
Rudy
From: Ed Wilts
[mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
9:21 AM
To: Dibonge,
Rudy; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Master
Server Preference
Hi Rudy,
There are several
issues here. First, you cannot upgrade from Unix to Windows (or Windows
to Unix) for a master server. No form of migration is supported –
you would have to build a brand new environment and import your tapes to get
them cataloged.
We used to run a
Windows master server back in 3.4 days and migrated to Solaris (yes, it was
unsupported and really, really ugly to do but we pulled it off). We
don’t regret the migration at all – the management tools on Solaris
are *much* more complete than they
are on Windows and adding things on (e.g. mrtg monitoring of tape drives,
queues, tapes, etc.) is much easier to do.
Earlier this week we
rebooted our Windows media server and it took another couple of reboots to
bring the tape drives back. This is unfortunately typical. In
several years, I only remember 1 or 2 reboots required on our Solaris media
servers due to tape drive issues.
If you’re a
100% Windows shop, then a Windows master server might make sense (although
something like Commvault might make even more sense since end users can do
their own restores). Otherwise, leave the master on a Unix platform of
some sort – HPUX, Solaris, or Linux. I don’t have any AIX
experience.
That’s my 2
bits worth.
…/Ed
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From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]
On Behalf Of Dibonge, Rudy
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
8:09 AM
To:
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Master
Server Preference
We are planning an upgrade from version 5.0 MP1 to version
6.0 MP4. Currently we use an HPUX master server and we are thinking of
migrating to a windows 2003 master server. I am not sure how stable a windows
master server is. Do anyone have experience with a windows master server. From
most of the posting, it seems most folks are using Unix master server.
Thanks,
Rudy
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