All Just wanted to share with you my experience of the in place upgrade for NBU 5.1 MP7 to 6.5.2
Original Plan: Upgrade Master only, then do SAN Media Servers at a later date. However, due to issues with one Media Server and the nbpushdata command having problems communicating with one Media Server (Even though NBCC worked like a charm!), an issue had arisen that required Symantec Help! In the end, it was easier to do an inplace upgrade for everything (Did not make me popular but its done!) and so far its gone ok-ish! Main problem was 1 Media Server was offline, refused to do restores or backups. Turned out it was only Active for disks. Problem tied down to a corrupt ltid and oprd processes. These got repaired by a manual replacement of the files. No idea why it happened, as the box in question installed and upgraded flawlessly! One major problem I have seen is with my Win2k3 Active/Passive Mail Cluster. Now reading some notes, its clear something has changed in terms of how 6.5 handles Virtual Server Names, but if anyone can shed any light on this, it would be appreciated. The 5.1 Topology used to show the NODE1 and NODE2 as physical SSO SAN MEDIA SERVERS. I used the command BPSTUADD to create a Virtual Storage Unit called MAIL. This used to appear in the topology of Activity Monitor. Now, it appears, when I run the backup, the topology shows the Virtual Name MAIL as a Computer Icon. As if it is doing the backups over the LAN. Worse still, the throughput is showing speeds as if it is LAN Based Backups !! Not sure why this has happened, but if anyone has a Mail System in a 2-node cluster and was on 5.1 and now moved to 6.5, I would be interested to hear how yours is working! 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. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England
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