[Veritas-bu] Symantec Device Driver Package or Official HP Vendor Drivers
Hi everyone, Back in the early days of 3.x of NetBackup, there was always a requirement to use the Veritas Approved Drivers for NetBackup. With 6.0 and onwards, is this still a real requirment? I have been going ahead and using the latest HP / IBM Vendor drivers where required, and to date, have never had a problem. Just wanted to get an idea if there is a preference or is this now considered an option if you do not have the drivers available? Thanks all 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. -o- 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] Symantec Device Driver Package or Official HP Vendor Drivers
The trend from Symantec, and other vendors, has been to away from providing their own device drivers. We saw that with the OTM to VSP to VSS migration and we are also seeing with tape drivers - Symantec does not even have a tape driver package for 64-bit Windows. Our our Windows media server, we've been installing the HP tape drivers and it's been working fine. It's been that way for a couple of years or more. .../Ed On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:04 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote: Hi everyone, Back in the early days of 3.x of NetBackup, there was always a requirement to use the Veritas Approved Drivers for NetBackup. With 6.0 and onwards, is this still a real requirment? I have been going ahead and using the latest HP / IBM Vendor drivers where required, and to date, have never had a problem. Just wanted to get an idea if there is a preference or is this now considered an option if you do not have the drivers available? Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec Device Driver Package or Official HP Vendor Drivers
Hi Ed I completely agree. All of my robots are using the official Tape Drivers, and as you said, they dont do it for x64 either. Like you , have been using the official ones since 2005 and its never caused an issue. Simon From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:32 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Symantec Device Driver Package or Official HP Vendor Drivers The trend from Symantec, and other vendors, has been to away from providing their own device drivers. We saw that with the OTM to VSP to VSS migration and we are also seeing with tape drivers - Symantec does not even have a tape driver package for 64-bit Windows. Our our Windows media server, we've been installing the HP tape drivers and it's been working fine. It's been that way for a couple of years or more. .../Ed On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:04 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote: Hi everyone, Back in the early days of 3.x of NetBackup, there was always a requirement to use the Veritas Approved Drivers for NetBackup. With 6.0 and onwards, is this still a real requirment? I have been going ahead and using the latest HP / IBM Vendor drivers where required, and to date, have never had a problem. Just wanted to get an idea if there is a preference or is this now considered an option if you do not have the drivers available? Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE ewi...@ewilts.org 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. -o- 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
