[Veritas-bu] Share media server w 2 masters, 1 master restores only

[BA65]

I want to do a fresh install of NBU 7.1 on new server hardware for master and 
media.  The new environment would also have a new i6000 LTO4 library.  

I need to keep my old master around for restores, but the thought is to 
virtualize it.  The current master server is old and has a Quantum PX-506 LTO3 
library that is EOSL.  There are a bunch of reasons why I don’t want to upgrade 
the old master.  The catalog is large and there is a lot of stuff in it we 
don’t back up anymore.  

So I am thinking that I can set up the i6000 on the new media server and 
include the old master in the server list.  When we need to restore, we would 
place the old tapes in the library, and as long as they don’t go into the new 
master’s scratch pool, the new master should ignore them.  Since the old master 
won’t be writing any tapes, it shouldn’t interfere with the new master’s tapes.

Has anyone else done this before?  It seems easy to me, but I must be missing 
something…  I assume that since the new media server will be 7.1 I will still 
have to upgrade the old master, but once that old  master is virtualized, I can 
snapshot it before the upgrade.

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Re: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas Netbackup.

[John Meyers]

Just a quick follow-on to what mitch808 said, in that the Nbu Clt App and DB 
Pk
is also priced on a per physical server basis now as opposed to per guest basis.
So with some reorganization of you're guests down to fewer physical servers you
could probably drop the licensing costs down a bit.

-John

On 05/26/2011 05:51 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) wrote:
 HEre is the problem I have...
 
 We have in excess of 30+ ESX Hosts, all have 4 CPU's
 We also have SQL Clusters, Oracle, Exchange, SAP, on VM and you also
 need to be licensed for them, and from the comments of the Sales guy, I
 needed a price for each DB Client too !
 
 It has added up to a huge bill !
 Simon 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
 [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of mitch808
 Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 7:49 AM
 To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
 Subject: [Veritas-bu] Best way to do ESXi 4.1 backup by Veritas
 Netbackup.
 
 Symantec changed the licensing where if you had 10 Windows guests and 10
 Linux guests, you USED to need two Enterprise Client licenses.  This was
 a 6.5 limitation.
 
 In NBU 7, no longer.  Way to go, finally something right in licensing.
 It's an Enterprise Client per PHYSICAL host, regardless of guest OS
 type.
 This is licensed per physical CPU or tier.
 
 Because you have Enterprise clients, you need to have an Enterprise
 master and enterprise media servers.  Again per CPU/tier, and that price
 adds up.
 
 Point being, buy as many cores as you can afford!  Don't buy a quad CPU
 box.
 
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