Our current backup environment is a physical HP server hosting a 32-bit Windows 2003 O/S (believe me, not my choice!) running Netbackup 7.0. There is 1 master server (not acting as a media server) and 4 additional media servers. All have identical builds.
Yes, yes, I know it is dreadfully out of date, but it has not been under my administration for the past few years until now.
My end goal is the following:
1. Virtualize our master server with VmWare. The O/S would be 64-bit Windows 2012, Netbackup 7.6. Assume hostname, ip, physical disk structure remains the same. The challenge here is that we are changing O/S type, bit flavor, Netbackup version, and physical to virtual.
2. We are purchasing two new appliances from Symantec to replace the 4 media servers.
In order to achieve #1, I believe the following steps have to occur in this specific order based upon the different documents I read here:
1. Build a Windows 2008 vm with the same exact drive structure as our 2003 Master Server.
2. Install 64-bit NBU 7.0 on the Windows 2008 virtual machine.
3. Perform a catalog recovery. (The catalog disk is all SAN-attached so we considered simply swinging the LUNS that host the catalog, but this seemed the less-risky route.)
4. Upgrade Netbackup to 7.5.0.6.
5. Upgrade Windows 2008 to Windows 2012.
6. Upgrade to Netbackup 7.6.0.1.
Any insight, suggestions, information would be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
CJ