{"id":2449,"date":"2010-08-06T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T06:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2018-12-11T18:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T08:34:01","slug":"networker-and-centos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2010\/08\/06\/networker-and-centos\/","title":{"rendered":"NetWorker and CentOS"},"content":{"rendered":"

A common question I get asked by Linux customers is “Can I run my NetWorker server on CentOS?”<\/p>\n

Up until a short while ago, I always had to give an answer that differentiated between can<\/em> and supported<\/em>. Thankfully a while ago, EMC started supporting NetWorker clients running on CentOS, but servers and storage nodes were a bit of a hold out.<\/p>\n

This morning I did a bit of a happy-geek dance (not really, but that description certainly fits my mood) when I read the latest software compatibility guide and saw:<\/p>\n

\"NetWorker<\/a><\/p>\n

For people who need to run Linux, but dislike the licensing costs of the commercial distributions (or like me, question the quality of support you get from such distributions), this will be a big help.<\/p>\n

I’d like to think this is part of a growing trend amongst enterprise vendors \u2013 CentOS is in every way an enterprise distribution (and especially appreciated by many administrators thanks to the Yum package management system).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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