[Veritas-bu] NetBackup Migration 5.1 -> 6.5
Hi all, I am weighing up the pros and cons to either do an "in place" upgrade or "migration". I just wanted to know if anyone had any pros or cons to this. The Environment constsits of 10+ SAN SSO Media Servers, 1 Master, 1 Robot. In place should be easy, but Symantec are identifying many, many issues with the current environment, that concerns me that the upgrade will not go clean. Starting afresh for the Master means I will migrate clients and policies over from the old system to the new one. Just a couple of quick questions: 1) My License key is for upgrade. Would it still work if 5.1 was not installed on the "clean" new Server? 2) for the SAN Media Servers, any cons I need to be aware of when upgrading them and pointing them to the new Master Server 3) Does this violate the license agreement by using the new key on new clean hardware? What if I turn off the Master, install 5.1 on the new Server with my current license, and then use the upgrade license key for NBU 6.5 Apprecaite the comments and advice. Thanks Regards Simon This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Migration 5.1 -> 6.5
I recently pondered the same questions and chose to build a new environment with 6.5 rather than upgrading the existing 5.1 servers. I can't speak for the SAN media servers as we don't have any but if you are upgrading to 6.5 you will need to install 5.1 on the new servers install your license keys and then upgrade to 6.5. Chances are your license keys will not install on a virgin 6.5 server if they are 5.x license keys. As for question 3. I can't imagine how Symantec could ever consider that a violation if you choose to upgrade via a clean install on new hardware. What if your existing server failed, could you be expected to buy new licenses if you had to rebuild on new hardware. As I see it I probably saved Symantec a bunch of support calls by starting clean on a new server. john On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:35 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I am weighing up the pros and cons to either do an "in place" upgrade or > "migration". > > I just wanted to know if anyone had any pros or cons to this. The > Environment constsits of 10+ SAN SSO Media Servers, 1 Master, 1 Robot. > > In place should be easy, but Symantec are identifying many, many issues > with the current environment, that concerns me that the upgrade will not go > clean. > > Starting afresh for the Master means I will migrate clients and policies > over from the old system to the new one. > > Just a couple of quick questions: > > 1) My License key is for upgrade. Would it still work if 5.1 was not > installed on the "clean" new Server? > 2) for the SAN Media Servers, any cons I need to be aware of when upgrading > them and pointing them to the new Master Server > > 3) Does this violate the license agreement by using the new key on new > clean hardware? What if I turn off the Master, install 5.1 on the new Server > with my current license, and then use the upgrade license key for NBU 6.5 > > Apprecaite the comments and advice. > > Thanks > > *Regards* > > *Simon** * > This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or > privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. > If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender > immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it > for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this > message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all > liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or > falsified. > - > Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 > REGISTERED OFFICE:- > Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England > > ___ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > > ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Migration 5.1 -> 6.5
hi John thanks. That is part of the problem, in that the hardware is becoming troublesome. So my plan was to install clean v 5.1 and then upgrade. Then slowly migrate the client systems over to the new server. Eventually the old server will be closed down. Simon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Howard Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:23 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup Migration 5.1 -> 6.5 I recently pondered the same questions and chose to build a new environment with 6.5 rather than upgrading the existing 5.1 servers. I can't speak for the SAN media servers as we don't have any but if you are upgrading to 6.5 you will need to install 5.1 on the new servers install your license keys and then upgrade to 6.5. Chances are your license keys will not install on a virgin 6.5 server if they are 5.x license keys. As for question 3. I can't imagine how Symantec could ever consider that a violation if you choose to upgrade via a clean install on new hardware. What if your existing server failed, could you be expected to buy new licenses if you had to rebuild on new hardware. As I see it I probably saved Symantec a bunch of support calls by starting clean on a new server. john On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:35 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am weighing up the pros and cons to either do an "in place" upgrade or "migration". I just wanted to know if anyone had any pros or cons to this. The Environment constsits of 10+ SAN SSO Media Servers, 1 Master, 1 Robot. In place should be easy, but Symantec are identifying many, many issues with the current environment, that concerns me that the upgrade will not go clean. Starting afresh for the Master means I will migrate clients and policies over from the old system to the new one. Just a couple of quick questions: 1) My License key is for upgrade. Would it still work if 5.1 was not installed on the "clean" new Server? 2) for the SAN Media Servers, any cons I need to be aware of when upgrading them and pointing them to the new Master Server 3) Does this violate the license agreement by using the new key on new clean hardware? What if I turn off the Master, install 5.1 on the new Server with my current license, and then use the upgrade license key for NBU 6.5 Apprecaite the comments and advice. Thanks Regards Simon This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
