Here is the scenario:
Current Setup is:
Server: Dell PowerEdge R720xd
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz (2 Processors)
Memory: 65470MB
Storage:
DataDomain DD640
Quantum Scalar i500 Tape Library with 2xLTO4 & 2xLTO6
Local DisktoDisk Folder on 11TB Partition
Local DeDuplication Folder on 22TB Partition
The server is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with BackupExec 2014
We currently have a VMware environment which is going to be migrated to Hyper-V Hosts using Datacentre 2012-R2 and at the same time the servers will be migrated to Windows 2012-R2.
So the dilema I am faced with is that the BE server will need to have an in-place upgrade to Windows 2012-R2 and we propose to also update to BE2015 at the same time. The spanner in the works is that our exchange environment is on Exchange 2007; the tools required for backup are not a supported on that version of Windows.
In order to continue to be able to backup the legacy exchange environment we are pondering what the options are.
We have the Capacity Licence for BE2014 and we have an older Server that was running BE2012 on Windows 2008-R2 so one option is to re-utilise the older server just for the exchange backups as it has all the required elements installed for these. However, the problem is how do I give the old server access to the Tape Library and Datadomain, for its backups, whilst retaining the other backups on the existing server using the same resources.
So basically trying to have two media servers(BE2015 and BE2012) attaching to the same storage.
