I want to do a fresh install of NBU 7.1 on new server hardware for master and 
media.  The new environment would also have a new i6000 LTO4 library.  

I need to keep my old master around for restores, but the thought is to 
virtualize it.  The current master server is old and has a Quantum PX-506 LTO3 
library that is EOSL.  There are a bunch of reasons why I don?t want to upgrade 
the old master.  The catalog is large and there is a lot of stuff in it we 
don?t back up anymore.  

So I am thinking that I can set up the i6000 on the new media server and 
include the old master in the server list.  When we need to restore, we would 
place the old tapes in the library, and as long as they don?t go into the new 
master?s scratch pool, the new master should ignore them.  Since the old master 
won?t be writing any tapes, it shouldn?t interfere with the new master?s tapes.

Has anyone else done this before?  It seems easy to me, but I must be missing 
something?  I assume that since the new media server will be 7.1 I will still 
have to upgrade the old master, but once that old  master is virtualized, I can 
snapshot it before the upgrade.

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