09-14-2018 05:57 AM
Hi,
We are currently in the process of decommissioning 2008 servers and it is not the turn of our Netbackup environment. We currently have:
1 physical master running server 2008 r2
4 physical media servers running server 2008 r2
1 virtual OpsCenter server running 2008 r2
Our current Netbackup version is 7.7.2
They all need migrating to 2016 but to start with we would like to get the master server migrated, and then upgraded to 8.1.2 (or vice versa).
We have tape drives connected to the media servers, I have read the master server cannot be virtualised if tape drives are used in the environment but is that when they are directly connected to the master server? Our master server doesn't have any tape drives attached so I am hoping we can still virtualise it. We will keep the physical media servers and upgrade those at a later date.
I am just after some clarification around the tape drives and also, a recommended route to move the master server onto 2016 OS and then upgraded to 8.1.2.
Many thanks!
09-25-2018 11:42 AM
can you see the command start with
start ....
so what you need to do is to open cmd prompt as admin and type in there start and repeat the same command by enclose it with quotation marks, ie
start "path the setup.exe\setup.exe /server" and that's all... ie
09-25-2018 12:18 PM - edited 09-25-2018 12:18 PM
09-25-2018 11:34 PM - edited 09-25-2018 11:59 PM
So much documentation, everytime someone replies, I get a link to anew document!!!
I'm clearly coming across as incompetent, but I'm not! There's so many notes and guides and warnings that it's making me nervous about doing the upgrade when it's probably going to be straightforward!
I thank you all for your assistance, it has been a great help! I think I was just expecting this to be a little more straightforward than it has turned out.
I'm going to attempt this one more time and if it fails, I will call support.
Thanks everyone
09-26-2018 12:37 AM
8.1.2 has a new client update method: vxupdate.
e.g.
vxupdate_nbclient_8.1.2_windows_x64.sja VXUPDATE FOR X64 WINDOWS
You will find a vxupdate file for each supported client OS.
Extracts from 8.1.2 Upgrade Guide:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/125240132-131571482-0/v133184590-131571482
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/125240132-131571482-0/v130875986-131571482
09-26-2018 02:14 AM
09-26-2018 02:17 AM