Our NBU master used to be on a Sun SPARC V490 running Solaris 9. Very solid but also pretty costly. When we found a better use for the V490 we looked around and finally settled with an HP DL385G2 running Solaris 10 x86 with 4GB of memory. The server is actually faster than the older SPARC box and we haven't had any reliability issues. We did manage to get the same HP box to run NBU on Linux using Fedora core but this was not an approved configuration and gave us no end of trouble. When Veritas finally approved configurations running Solaris on X86 we jumped on it and haven't looked back since !!
Mark Glazerman Desk: 314-889-8282 Cell: 618-520-3401 P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of judy_hinchcli...@administaff.com Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:16 AM To: adam.mel...@woodside.com.au; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Master server hardware - Solaris I have had both windows and AIX masters. I like AIX better (could be some favoritism here as I am an AIX admin), I boot the server less often. Had to boot the windows master a little more then I liked. ________________________________ From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mellor, Adam A. Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:12 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Master server hardware - Solaris good morning, I am Interested in asking the community thier opinions for what hardware platform works best for master only netbackup servers. We currently are running our master in a master media configuration (with two additional media servers) and it is time to refresh the master server hardware. I am going to be performing some tests to benchmark some of the hardware we may use for a replacement master only server. for this i am also interested in some of the tests i can run to give an indication of the server performance. I was thinking of restoing the catalogue to the test hardware and timing some of the more intensive commands such as bpimmedia and bplist. does anybody have other or perhaps even better suggestions ?. I'll post results as i complete tests tests if anybody is interested. At the moment it looks like i'll get to test the Sun M300, T5220 and one of the new Intel Nehalem systems. Thanks Adam M. NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages and all attachments.
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