Oh, and I forgot to say that the virtualised master server doesn't do ANY backups, other than it's own catalog backups.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Dean <[email protected]> wrote: > We recently faced this question when designing a brand new data centre. We > decided there was not much point in virtualising the media servers, since > they are just I/O machines and will probably (hopefully) saturate SOME part > of the infrastructure they're running on, be it inbound network, outband > I/O to disk/tape, or the bus on the server's motherboard. The ONLY physical > (non-virtualised) servers in this new data centre are our NBU media servers. > > The NBU master however is virtual, and we recently did a site fail-over > test of the master using VMware SRM, and it worked just fine. (Cisco UCS, > VMware 4.1, NBU 7.1, RHEL6) > > As another data point, I just completed vSphere 5 training this week, and > the very knowledgeable instructor said "These days, the only thing that > obviously shouldn't be virtualised is backup servers". > > Cheers > Dean > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:37 AM, <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I work for Sony Playstation and we are moving a racked stand-alone Master >> & Media server configuration to a new data center. >> I am on version 7.1 and am considering virtualizing the entire >> infrastructure. Has anyone successfully done this yet and did you run into >> any gotchas? >> >> Regards >> >> Brian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] >> http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu >> >> >
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