Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-11-03 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
, October 30, 2008 1:56 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers I can think of no good reason to VM a master server, other than because I can or because I want to. leave it be Schneider, Matthew J. wrote: Anyone have any update on weather

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-11-03 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schneider, Matthew J. Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:25 PM To: Honeybrook, Kate; Holowinski,Scott; Curtis Preston; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Anyone have any update on weather or not the master alone

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-10-30 Thread Curtis Preston
Infrastructure :: Optimized -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of oersted Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:56 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers I can think of no good reason to VM a master

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-10-29 Thread Schneider, Matthew J.
Of Honeybrook, Kate Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 11:54 PM To: Holowinski, Scott; Curtis Preston; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers As I said earlier we currently have our master server virtualised under ESX and it was setup by Symantec themselves

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-10-29 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Schneider, Matthew J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any update on weather or not the master alone is supported as a VM? It is not currently supported. .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-10-29 Thread oersted
; Curtis Preston; VERITAS-BU at mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers As I said earlier we currently have our master server virtualised under ESX and it was setup by Symantec themselves. Therefore I was under the impression that virtualizing a master server

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-25 Thread Ed Wilts
NetBackup master or media server functionality is not supported in a Solaris container either. NBU has to be in the global zone. You can have a NetBackup client in a container, but not a master or media. .../Ed On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:25 PM, SIBLEY, Ken R. - ACCOR-NA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-25 Thread Holowinski, Scott
Preston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 11:13 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Because many people use their master server as a media server. Symantec's not going to support it as a master server unless it can also

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-24 Thread Curtis Preston
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] |  www.glasshouse.com Infrastructure :: Optimized -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of andrea bolongaro Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 10:27 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-24 Thread SIBLEY, Ken R. - ACCOR-NA
, Solaris Containers, Solaris LDOMs, etc. Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 1:13 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Because many people

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-23 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
, May 23, 2008 6:46 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Has anyone tried to do this by zoning the tape drives and robot directly to the guest's WWN via NPIV

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Martin, Jonathan
and not to disk? -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dave Carpe Sent: Thu 5/22/2008 1:48 PM To: Curtis Preston; WEAVER, Simon (external); [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Curtis Preston
: Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:55 PM To: Dave Carpe; Curtis Preston; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Dave / Curtis Ok - 2 conflicting responses here! If its unsupported, then from a business direction I guess its not a viable

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Martin, Jonathan
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:49 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Dave Carpe; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Not conflicting responses. Two

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-23 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
(external); Dave Carpe; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Not conflicting responses. Two responses to two questions: does it work at all and is it supported? It's definitely not supported, but I have found it to work

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-23 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
; Curtis Preston; WEAVER, Simon (external); [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Can you please be more specific on your massive I/O problems? Are we talking about SCSI? Fiber? Tape? Disk? VMWare claims 60,000 I/O per second per ESX

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Martin, Jonathan
-Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 9:48 AM To: Martin, Jonathan; Dave Carpe; Curtis Preston; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Jonathan Seeing as David is from

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-23 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
, Simon (external); veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Right - I was trying not to assume anything. For all I know, he means pure disk. I'm really looking for credible test results of VMWare I/O issues. I've seen some pretty credible benchmark results

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Dave Carpe
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:24 AM To: Dave Carpe; Curtis Preston; WEAVER, Simon (external); [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Can you please be more specific on your massive I/O problems? Are we talking about SCSI

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-23 Thread Curtis Preston
Infrastructure :: Optimized -Original Message- From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 6:46 AM To: Curtis Preston; Dave Carpe; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Curtis

[Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-23 Thread andrea bolongaro
Hello everybody, ok it is not supported. It' clear for me... problems are related to robotics/san etc... But why do not support a Virtual Master Server if all robotics stuff is duty of a physical media server? regards, Andrea

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-22 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers When you say they don't support, you must mean that they won't

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-22 Thread Honeybrook, Kate
]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Hi Curtis Well guess what.. there is a client that is looking at VM'ing Master and Media Servers and want to use a tape drive or robot! I am under the impression its not supported or works. Your comments seem

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-22 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Hi Simon We currently had a Symantec do an upgrade at our site from version 5.1 to 6.5.1. We had a master media server combined on a physical box. After the upgrade we now a have a virtual master server

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-22 Thread Curtis Preston
- From: WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:24 PM To: Curtis Preston; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Hi Curtis Well guess what.. there is a client that is looking

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-22 Thread Dave Carpe
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:13 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers It works for me just fine, but I don't think it's supported. Curtis Preston  |  VP Data

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-22 Thread Honeybrook, Kate
PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Hi Simon We currently had a Symantec do an upgrade at our site from version 5.1 to 6.5.1. We had a master media server combined on a physical box. After the upgrade we now a have a virtual master

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-22 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:49 PM To: Curtis Preston; WEAVER, Simon (external); [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers It is not supported. There are massive problems with the I/O. David K. Carpe Principal Systems

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-22 Thread Chacko, Savil
:54:41 2008 Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Dave / Curtis Ok - 2 conflicting responses here! If its unsupported, then from a business direction I guess its not a viable option to go this route. (If what you say is right with the I/O then that is the last thing I need). Simon

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-21 Thread Curtis Preston
] |  www.glasshouse.com Infrastructure :: Optimized -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:10 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Is Symantec actually

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-14 Thread Bluejay
Is Symantec actually going to be supporting a Virtual Machine as a Master or Media Server (San Media too), which can use SSO to share a tape library? A recent exercise with VMware a few months ago brought to light that VMware does NOT support guest access to SAN-based tape drives, and has

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-14 Thread Martin, Jonathan
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Is Symantec actually going to be supporting a Virtual Machine as a Master or Media Server (San Media too), which can use SSO to share a tape library? A recent exercise with VMware a few months ago

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-14 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:37 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers The Netbackup 6 OS Compatibility Matrix lists VMWare explicitly and the only

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-14 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:55 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, thats the feeling I got, but I am being strongly advised by a 3rd party that symantec does support it. The 3rd party is wrong. Symantec publishes its compatibility lists. It's a worthwhile read.

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-14 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:55 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, thats the feeling I got, but I am being strongly advised by a 3rd party that symantec does support it. The 3rd party is wrong. Symantec

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-14 Thread Hudson, Steve
14, 2008 10:55 AM To: Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Hi Ed Yes, thats the feeling I got, but I am being strongly advised by a 3rd party that symantec does support it. However, I am starting to have doubts about this. And I

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-14 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Hudson, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are also planning a Windows 6.5.1 Master to backup VMware using the VCB function.. Am I hearing correctly that this is Not supported by Symantec ?? Not, you're not hearing correctly. You can back up VMware fine -

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-14 Thread Dave Carpe
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hudson, Steve Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:18 PM To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Ed Wilts Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers We are also planning a Windows 6.5.1 Master to backup VMware using the VCB function.. Am I

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-14 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers We are also planning a Windows 6.5.1 Master to backup VMware using the VCB function.. Am I hearing correctly that this is Not supported by Symantec ?? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-13 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi All Is Symantec actually going to be supporting a Virtual Machine as a Master or Media Server (San Media too), which can use SSO to share a tape library? Understand that 6.5.2 is going to include this, but wanted to seek clarification on this. any Technotes would help. Many Thanks Regards

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-13 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers Is Symantec actually going to be supporting a Virtual Machine as a Master or Media Server (San Media too), which can use SSO to share a tape library? A recent exercise with VMware a few months ago brought

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-13 Thread Bluejay
Is Symantec actually going to be supporting a Virtual Machine as a Master or Media Server (San Media too), which can use SSO to share a tape library? A recent exercise with VMware a few months ago brought to light that VMware does NOT support guest access to SAN-based tape drives, and has no

Re: [Veritas-bu] VM Master / Media Servers

2008-05-13 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:10:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Symantec actually going to be supporting a Virtual Machine as a Master or Media Server (San Media too), which can use SSO to share a tape library? A recent exercise with VMware a few months ago