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Upgrading our Exchange Cluster from Win 2000 to Win 2003
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The exchange team are upgrading there servers from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003.

During the upgrade process they are planning to have one node 1 at Windows 2000 and the other node at Windows 2003.

Netbackup is installed on the X: drive which is shared between the clusters.

The version of Netbackup on each node is currently - 5.1 MP3

I have two questions from the Netbackup point of view:

Question 1
Is it possible to have different version of Windows OS and still perform Backups and restores, while failing over the package between the nodes?
Question 2
Is it possible to have different versions of NB software on both nodes e.g?
Windows 2000 5.1 MP3 Windows 2003 5.1 MP5
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Junaid Mohammad
Systems Engineering - Enterprise Storage Services
Email: junaid.mohammad < at > bankofamerica.com






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Hello, Junaid

The way you phrase your question, i.e. "is it possible..." I would say the answer is yes. In fact, based on my experience, I would even say that it is probable.

However, as far as I know, Microsoft does not support a cluster unless both nodes are running like hardware and like operating systems.

Therefore, while my own opinion is that there would be no issues, I would err on the side of caution and say NO to both questions.

mm

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