NOOOOOOOO.....sorry, just feel pretty adamant about it.  We have had a
couple of customers insist on trying it and have always had to back them
out.  The Thumper does not seem to react very well to the Sybase database
and you get lousy performance.  Another thing to note...the x86 platform
does not support the BMR database, so if you want to take advantage of that
free functionality in 6.5 you can't on the Thumper.

We are a Sun and a Symantec partner, so I fully support Sun systems and love
them as Master/Media servers...just not that one.

Renee Carlisle
ServerWare Corporation 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jeff 
Bryer
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:59 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Master Server on a SUN Thumper?

We're currently running our NBU 6.0 master server on a SUN V240
with an XRaid for disk staging.  How viable would it be to run
our master server (we'd be willing to upgrade to 6.5) on a SUN Thumper
(the Sun Fire X4500)?

One integrated box for disk staging and our master server (we don't run
media servers) sounds appealing.  We already have a Thumper in production.
But I've never run the NetBackup server on Solaris/x86.

The Thumper would provide enough staging space for the duration of the lease
on the box.

-- 
Jeff Bryer                              bryer AT sfu DOT ca
Systems Administrator                   (778) 782-4935
IT Infrastructure, Simon Fraser University
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