My customer uses M series for Master servers and T series for Media servers. When I was at Symantec this issue came up quite often. The general advice was that if you could afford it, the M Series was better for the master. There was also discussions of future changes to NBU to make it more performant on the T series.
Of course if your budget is limited, then it would be nice if you could provide some information on your projected load (Tuning Guide stuff like # of media servers, jobs, etc) as to whether it will really be necessary to go to the M.
Also, if you're rolling out a new server you really need to look to the future and ask your Symantec SE if any of the changes in 7.5 will cause additional load on the Master. It's in public beta so you can see the changes. NetBackup Search, which I believe is indexing of the catalog, is one feature that concerns me in regards to load, but I haven't had time to try the Beta in my lab yet.
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Carl Mathews <cmathews < at > uark.edu ([email]cmathews < at > uark.edu[/email])> wrote:
Is a T-series Sun master server a good choice for Netbackup 7 compared to a M-series, or linux? The M-series is more expensive for a machine with the same amount of RAM. Are there shops running NB 7 on T-series machines? Is it true that Sybase doesn't perform well on a T-series? We are running Netbackup 6.5.5 on a T2000 and it works fine, but we need a new server for NB 7. I would like to stay with Solaris.
Thanks Carl Mathews
University of Arkansas
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