Hi All,
We have netbackup appliance 5220 with running 2.5.4 V. We wanted to upgrade to 3.0 V. Please advise me what are the steps. I just gone through the sort veritas site, but I am unable to capture where to start and end.
Just my $0.02 here but make sure your 5220 has the 96G RAM upgrade and you may not want to upgrade past 2.6 anyway. One of mine still has the original 48G RAM and I made the mistake of upgrading to 2.7 and its constantly generating AffectedBackup.lst of damaged images as well as responding slower than a chunk of granite...
With the pending End-Of-Life of the 5220's, it may be easier to start the replacement/upgrade process for the hardware now and use the newer software on the newer Appliances...unless this Appliance is your Master...
This appliance is very small one. I have only the below available memory.
maintenance-!> free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 24034 21578 2455 0 49 16842
-/+ buffers/cache: 4685 19348
Swap: 32773 0 32773
Also, How can I check the tape library compatiblity with 2.6.1.2 V and 3.0 . We are using IBM tape library and I unable to figure out which driver has been installed now.
This would imply you don't have a storage shelf on this system -- is that correct?
If that is, the RAM upgrade suggested doesn't concern me AS much, but you should still consider it.
Look to the HCL for your library question. The appliance version aligns to the NetBackup version with 2.x matching to 7.x and 3.x to 8.x.
Check out the upgrade guide for 3.0 and 2.6. Those should get you the full path you need to take. You can't get there directly.
