NBU on Solaris Sparc VS. Solaris x86 - Solaris VS. RH Linux

[netbackup_rooki]

Hi,

Can you please share your experience or feedbackup about running NBU on Solaris Sparc VS. Solaris x86.

I have always used NBU on Solaris on Sparc.

Is there any key things i should know before switching to x86 (cheaper cost) platform running Solaris?

To my knowledge, for most part All supported features on Sparc are support on x86 except media server De-dup.

Also,

if making a switch to x86, what is your experience running master/media servers on RH Linux?

or keeping the master on Solaris and media servers on RHL.

I appreciate your time and feedback.

Thanks!!

~Rookie~

[Yasuhisa_Ishika]

There are some considerations to migrate the server. http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH77448

[Marianne]

All features on Solaris Sparc are supported on Linux. We have recently migrated a customer to Linux using TN above. It's FLYING! I say recently - it's been 2 months and the customer is super happy!

[pikachu]

FBU doesn't work on solaris x86.

[Will_Restore]

Oracle Solaris - NetBackup Server

OS CPU Architecture OS Bits Master Server Media Server Bits BMR Server NBAC OpsCenter Server OpsCenterManagedServer NDMP Minimum NetBackup 7.X Level

Solaris 10 SPARC     64          Y                   Y                    64   Y                 Y        Y                          Y                                        Y         7.0

Solaris 10 x86-64      64          Y                   Y                    64   Y                 Y        Y                          Y                                        Y         7.0

[netbackup_rooki]

Thanks all for you input..

[Yasuhisa_Ishika]

FlashBackup is one of features released as Snapshot Client.

By pikachu's suggestion, I've found that Snapshot Client is not supported on Solaris x64.

NetBackup 7.1 Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide(see page 46)

http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC3661

NetBackup (tm) 7 Snapshot Client Compatibility List

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH126901