Successful Novell GroupWise® Clustering, Part 1

Gregg A. Hinchman

Tenacious Integration Services

Ed Hanley

Novell Inc.

Introduction, Presentation Outline

Introduction

Speakers

Presentation Business

Clustering Knowledge Transfer

Clustering Theory

Cluster Terms and Tools

Planning for GroupWise

Our Customer and their GroupWise System

GroupWise Design Matrix

Planning: Domain and MTA

Planning: Post Office and POA

Planning: WebAccess Agent and Application

Planning: GWIA

Planning: Failover Design

Summary

Introduction, Speakers

Gregg A. Hinchman

Collaboration Practice Manager, Tenacious Integration Services

10+ years of GroupWise Experience

4 years of GroupWise clustering Experience

Co-Author:

“Success with Clustering GroupWise”

www.TayKratzer.com

“Success with GroupWise Document Management”

GroupWise Advisor Magazine Articles

Introduction, Speakers

Ed Hanley

Senior Consultant, Novell Inc.

13+ years of GroupWise Experience

5 years of GroupWise clustering Experience

Contributing technical Author:

“Success with Clustering GroupWise”

“Novell's GroupWise 6.5 Administrator's Guide”

“Novell's Guide to SANs and Cluster Services”

Introduction, Presentation Business

Topic

We will discuss clustering and the planning for placing GroupWise in a clustered environment.

Format

Planning (Part 1) TUT236,

Implementation (Part 2) TUT237

Questions

Please hold until 'Question Breaks'

Knowledge:

Clustering Principles

Advanced GroupWise 6.5

NetWare® 6.5

Clustering Knowledge Transfer, Clustering Theories

Who is Clustering?

Hospitals, Financial Institutions, School Districts

What are 'they' clustering?

Data, GroupWise, Printing

Where are 'they' clustering?

Main data centers, Redundant sites

When are 'they' clustering?

Now and for the past 3 years

Why are 'they' clustering?

Consolidating Data centers, Decrease Administration, 99.999% (5 9's of uptime)

How are 'they' clustering?

Consultants mostly, Internal Resources are too over tasked

Clustering Knowledge Transfer, Clustering Terms

Define

Cluster -A group of servers and a SAN

Node -A server in a cluster

LUN's -Logical Unit Number (Disk Space on a SAN)

Cluster Resource -A 'special' NSS Pool (Virtual Server)

Cluster Tools

ConsoleOne® -1.3.6 with NCS 1.7 snap-ins

NetWare Remote Manager (NRM) -A nodes view

iManager -The new Tool in town

Questions?

Planning for GroupWise,
Our Customer and their GroupWise System

The Demo Company

4 Domains

PMDOM, PODOM, WADOM, IADOM

2 Post Offices

EMAILPO, DMSPO

1 WebAccess Agent

WA

1 Internet Agent

GWIA

Primary Domain

PMDOM

Internet Agent Domain

IADOM

Planning for GroupWise,
Our Customer and their GroupWise System

Post Office Domain

PODOM

WebAccess Domain

WADOM

WA

GWIA

DMSPO

EMAILPO

Resources

Distribution

Lists

Users

Libraries

Librarians

DMS Groups

Direct Connection

All Connections TCP/IP

Planning for GroupWise,
Design Matrix

What is the “GroupWise Design Matrix”?

Why do I want to create one?

When do I create one?

What information must be in one?

Planning for GroupWise,
Domain and MTA

What information must I have for the Domain and MTA?

Naming and Numbering Standards

Cluster Resource Names

Volume Names

Directory Paths

IP Addresses

Ports

MTP

HTTP

Planning for GroupWise,
Post Office and POA

What information must I have for the Post Office and POA?

Cluster Resource Name

Volume Name

Directory Path

IP Address

Ports

C/S

/IP

MTPINPORT and MTPOUTPORT

HTTP

Questions?

Planning for GroupWise,
WebAccess Agent and Application

What information must I have for the WebAccess Agent and Application?

Cluster Resource Name

Volume Name

Directory Path

IP Address

Port

HTTP

Planning for GroupWise,
GWIA

What information must I have for the Internet Agent?

Cluster Resource Name

Volume Name

Directory Path

IP Address

Port

HTTP

Planning for GroupWise,
Failover Design

What is Failover and How do I design it?

Number of Nodes

Acceptable Degradation of GroupWise Services

Too much failover

Summary

Knowledge:

ATT Clustering Class

Clustering Book -www.TayKratzer.com

Consulting -Fast Track

Planning:

Hardware

GroupWise Design Matrix

IP Addresses, Ports, etc.

Failover

The End
Questions?

TUT236

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