Hi, sigh, I have to wonder — is this part of a grand strategy to further reduce market share?
Our customers with Solaris on Sparc have no intention at all of purchasing expensive long term support contracts to continue using the already paid for backup software (1), nor to implement elaborate workarounds for essential business requirements (2), nor for replacing recently purchased hardware in order for the backup software to work (3). Also, ISP is too expensive to ask customers to accept running unsupported backup clients (4). One would have hoped that IBM would at least offer cost neutral long term support for the latest 7.1 baclients on Sparc to those customers, but no… Now we have customers asking us why can’t we use Veeam Agent for Solaris file-level backups… I realize that supporting older clients for Solaris on Spare has costs associated with it, of course, but this gives customers yet another reason to consider cheaper and often crappier alternatives… I find all of this exceedingly frustrating, to be honest. Kind regards Florian > Am 16.02.2022 um 13:10 schrieb Del Hoobler <hoob...@us.ibm.com>: > > Hi Martin, > > It is true the native Spectrum Protect Solaris SPARC B/A client went EOS > on December 31, 2021. > > In talking with other clients, they have chosen a few different options: > > 1.) Purchase an extended support contract from IBM until December 31, 2022 > (this is Usage and Known Defect only) > 2.) Mount the Solaris SPARC filesystem from a supported platform and back > the data up that way > 3.) Move to Solaris x86 > 4.) Continue to use the SPARC Solaris B/A client "unsupported" > > > Del > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 02/16/2022 > 06:08:29 AM: > >> From: "Martin.Janosik" <martin.jano...@kyndryl.com> >> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >> Date: 02/16/2022 06:10 AM >> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Sun SPARC support for non-API clients >> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> >> >> Hello all, >> >> do I understand correctly that 31/Dec/2021 was last day of support >> for 7.1 versions (newest is 7.1.8.11) and that means there is no >> more any supported way to backing up filesystem data from Sun SPARC > servers? >> Are we forced to switch to different backup product? >> Or does IBM offer Extended Support for Backup/Archive client 7.1. on >> SPARC platform? >> >> Thank you for any tips >> >> Martin Janosik >> KSAT@ Kyndryl
