Just a word of caution, I noticed you were asking about VMware backups in another thread. If you are looking to integrate VADP backups in NetWorker, the VADP Proxy must run Windows. I use two VADP Proxies on Windows Server 2008R2, they are also Storage Nodes. Not quite as stable as I had hoped, but good performance.

Bancal,

     As far as i know NetWorker is most stable and has excellent performance on Linux. I have have a number of NetWorker on RHEL.

Of course VADP proxy runs on Windows, I'm asking of Linux box as NW server.

Hello Bancal,

As you already know, NetWorker is supported on Linux.  In general I have found NetWorker to perform better on Linux - less 'Windows' overhead.  And the throughput seems to be better as well.

From the management console side, it is the same setup and is easy enough to use.

I would suggest putting together a dev environment of NetWorker.  You can install and run without licensing for a while.  The only hiccup may be backing to a physical tape library - sharing between two networker servers can be a headache.

Another option would be to build a NetWorker storage node and have that backup dev systems as a test.  it is a non-disruptive test and will let you do an apples to apples comparison for speed, etc.

As a final note, if you are running NetWorker on a Windows system and you want to migrate to a Linux system, there is a process for doing that.  Contact support and ask for their help in the process.

I hope this helps!

Mark

NetWorker server on Linux is fine.

I can confirm the statement of Mark. I had a box running NW server on Windows 2003-R2 x64 and changed to SLES 11 and the same box nearly doubled the performance.

It's running stable and NMC too.

Nothing more to say on this.