Sanity check - appreciate any suggestions, advice, gotchas and confirmation before marching down this road ....
Existing environment - Netbackup v7.1.0.3 - running on Windows Server 2003 SP3. Netbackup Masters are running in a 2-node MS Cluster. Thirteen NB Media servers in three locations. All NB servers are joined to Active Directory domain "X"
Requirement 1 - Hardware server refresh and migration to Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system.
Requirement 2 - Migrated NB Environment from Active Directory domain "X" to Active Directory domain "Y".
Requirement 3 - Maintain existing NB version during migration to new hardware and AD Domain. After migration is complete - ugrade NB to the v 7.6.
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Current Plan:
The NB Media servers seem to be fairly straight-forward - fresh install of OS / Netbackup on new hardware joined to AD domain "Y". After moving jobs from existing NB Media servers to the new NB Media servers - retire the existing NB Media servers.
The Master Cluster is a different beast. The first thought is to retain the virtual Cluster name - in the new W2K8 R2 Cluster in AD domain "Y". Current idea would be to take the existing Master Cluster offline - build a new W2K8 R2 Cluster using new hardware and using the the existing virtual Cluster name - and pointing to the existing shared cluster LUNs. After confirmation that everything is ok with the new cluster - retire the existing NB cluster. Still chasing down differences between clustering with W2K3 and W2K8 R2 at the moment.
Thanks ...