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jeffw4
Level 3
8 years ago

Feedback After Upgrade to 8.1

Looking for any feedback from those who may have upgraded to 8.1. Any issues, posities or anything at all would be great. I have been getting mixed feedback from other sources so I wanted to see what folks may think here. Would be great if anyone running larger environments had any feedback...over 1PB of data and over 2k clients ideally. Thank you.

  • Make sure:

    You understand certificates, in general and especially if you use Targeted AIR

    Set Catalog Passphrase

    Understand the BMR implication.

    Be aware you are now the proud owner of a webservice too.

    For appliances,

    have at least 100 GB in config FS

    Sanity reboot

    13% free in MSDP

     

     

    Have upgraded Windows boxes, a set of SFW clusters, appliances, multiple domains with just a few minor issues.

     

     

  • BMR in 8.1 is broken due to the security certificates deployed. The code that should handle the security certificates during BMR did not get shipped with 8.1

  • We just upgraded to NetBackup 8.1 last week.  We are having trouble with MSDP jobs failing with status 83/84 (media open/write failure).  We have a support case open and are working through the issues.  It appears that many of our timeout values were lost, so I would recommend taking note of any custom values before update.  Updating the timeout values helped, but we are still seeing intermittent failures.  We moved some jobs to AdvancedDisk, which does not seem to be impacted.

    Edit: Running NBU 8.1 on RHEL 6.x, and the corresponding Appliance Version 3.1 on 5230/5240 Appliances.  And the Appliance jobs are the ones that are having trouble, and where we lost timeout values.

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      jeffw4
      Level 3

      We are running 8.0 on a Solaris 10 and RHEL 6 master server as well. One is prod and the other is DR. We are migrating both over to 5240 master servers in the near future. We have RHEL 6 build your own MSDP servers that are not seeing any issues at all, but our 5330 MSDP server is having issues with accelerator and virtual backups. We are seeing really bad slowness to complete and jobs are basically just hanging. Definitely some issues in 8.x it would seem. I think we will be staying away from 8.1. Hopefully they start getting some of this stuff fixed as it sounds like 8.2 is a ways off. I was really hoping that based on conversations at Vision their releases would start getting better, but that doesn't seem to be the case.