We don’t use Linux for Master or
Media server but do use it for quite a bit including a couple of Oracle RAC
installations.
My recommendation would to use RedHat if
you’re doing Linux. There are far more commercial packages for RHEL
than SLES. (Also from a Linux purist viewpoint Novell/Suse is shunned because
of the agreement they signed with M$.) Haven’t worked on SLES so don’t
know that it is better or worse technically but haven’t seen any reason
to go to it either.
The fibre HBAs we use are the ones made by
Qlogic. I had an issue with Emulex in a test environment once but it may be
that was because I was trying to setup a test environment to look like the
Production one that already had.
From:
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On Behalf Of ZIMMER, RANDY K
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Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:01
AM
To:
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Adding Linux
to NetBackup Environment as a Master andMedia Server.
All,
I’m
looking for guidance on using Linux in our NetBackup environment. We are
getting ready to update our current infrastructure. If we go with Linux
we will use the Dell hardware but I need to know from you is how the systems
should be sized, what HBA’s do you recommend, what OS, does it matter if
it is RedHat or SLES? I backup about 300 TB a month in my production
environment running
around 1500 jobs per day, with a lot of it being Oracle backups. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Randy
K. Zimmer
Sr. Unix System Administrator
Office: 314-694-3109
Cell: 314-960-0500
rkzimm AT monsanto DOT com
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