Master Server Migration From Solaris 10 to AIX

[jounix]

We are in the process of migrating our master server from Solaris 10 to AIX. Are there any considerations or problems foreseen in making the switch to a different OS. Is migrating the catalog difficult? Are there any reasons not to switch to AIX and instead migrate to Linux (Suse)?

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

Which NBU version? How are you doing catalog backups? Hot/Cold? To disk or tape?

Unix -> Unix migration is fine. Just keep the same hostname. Follow the steps in Troubleshooting Guide to perform full catalog recovery.

Carefully look at supported options/agents/features before making decision. Dedup and SAN Client are just two of the features not supported on AIX media servers. Most features are supported on Solaris and Linux media servers.

[jounix]

We are currently using version 6.5.4. Catalog backups are hot. We are writing to both tape and disk.

Thats really good information about SAN Client and dedup.