RE: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP2 has been released

[Mark.Donaldson]

I would assume that this Etrack listing, though, meant that this MP2 patch fixed the issue.  Am I wrong in thinking that?

 

-M

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Geyer, Gregory
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:18 PM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP2 has been released

Has anyone done a staged upgrade from 5.1 to 6.0 involving many media servers using SSO?

 

Having heard from Symantec support people of problems we've held off waiting for a patch.  This doesn't look like a fix.  The release notes from this MP appear to confirm that any upgrade should be done all at once if you have a large SSO environment.  Or at least redefining which servers access which drives, which may be problematic in our case.

 

Etrack Incident = ET427178

Description:
When sharing tape drives between media servers running both NetBackup 6.0
and NetBackup 5.x, a problem existed with the NetBackup 6.0 Scan Hosts.
If the drive being scanned was assigned to a NetBackup 5.x media server,
then the NetBackup 6.0 Scan Host might not stop scanning. This resulted
in SCSI reservation conflicts and DOWN'ed drives on the NetBackup 5.x
assigned host.

Workaround:
To avoid this issue, do not share drives between media servers running
different versions of NetBackup. Instead, pool your drives such that all
of your NetBackup 5.x media servers share one pool of drives and all of
your NetBackup 6.0 media servers share a pool of different drives.
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Etrack Incident = ET495033

Description:
The Device Monitor shows the same tape mounted in multiple drives. This
tape is assigned to a NetBackup 5.x media server.

Workaround:
To avoid this issue, do not share drives between NetBackup 6.0 media
servers and NetBackup 5.x media servers.

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Etrack Incident = ET513486

Description:
The following back-level SSO interoperability issues have occurred:
- Numerous re-registrations were consuming all of vmd's bandwidth on the
EMM server.
- Registration failures would occur because the no-scan-host setting,
registration retry timer would block back-level servers from releasing
drives.
- Back-level remote scanning of NetBackup 6.0 media servers was failing
with ENOTSCANHOST and forcing even more registrations to occur.

Workaround:
DO NOT SHARE DRIVES BETWEEN 6.0 AND 5.X MEDIA SERVERS.

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Major, Rusty
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 9:53 AM
To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] 6.0 MP2 has been released

NBU 6.0 MP2 was released earlier today:

http://www.support.veritas.com/menu_ddProduct_NBUESVR_view_DOWNLOAD.htm

 

Rusty Major, MCSE, BCFP

Data Assurance Engineer

(281) 584-4693

VeriCenter, Inc.