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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 6:09 PM
To: Ed Wilts; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Master Server Preference

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

 

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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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