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.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of ZIMMER, RANDY K
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Sent: Tuesday, March
25, 2008 9:01 AM
To:
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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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