Is the T5220 a good/workable fit for NetBackup

 I am considering replacing an X4500 (2x2x2.8GHz - 4 cores total) with a T5220 ( 8x8  1.4GHz - 64 threads) as a NetBackup master/media server.  The x4500 is really struggling CPU wise.Is the T5220 a good/workable fit for NetBackup?  We have a T5220 that maybe available - so there would be no server cost - may require a change in NetBackup licensing though.

The results shown here -> Sun’s Reference Architecture for Next-Generation Data Backup are way beyond my needs or configuration.

My concern is this note from the NetBackup documentation:

Sybase ASA performance is poor when the UltraSparc-T series processor is