Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup on CentOS ??

[Robin Small]

Fair enough..   Or at least along the lines of what I was suspecting was the 
case (the supportability of it).

I'm running mine on SLES (was v9 with v6.x, upgrading as we speak to v11 to go 
with NBU v7).

That resolves my curiosity,

Thanks..

~ Robin

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewi...@ewilts.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:37 AM
To: Robin Small
Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup on CentOS ??

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Robin Small 
<robin.sm...@fresno.gov<mailto:robin.sm...@fresno.gov>> wrote:
I'm wondering if any of you know why CentOS isn't supported as a NBU Master?

The compatibility matrix isn't really about what works - it's about what 
Symantec will support.  Many people have done all sorts of things that work, 
although may not be supported.

In order for Symantec to support CentOS as a master, they would have to build 
it and continue to update and support it.  Every new update would require 
re-certification on yet another platform.  Would you want your master server to 
be on a platform that Symantec hasn't thoroughly tested?  Of course not.

I suspect that there's not a lot of demand for a CentOS-based master either.  
NetBackup is an enterprise product and most enterprises probably want support 
on their production operating systems.

CentOS is not RHEL.  It never has been and never can be.  It's close, but from 
an enterprise support perspective, close isn't good enough.

   .../Ed
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