How to Consolidate Novell NetWare ® Servers Derek B. Dobson Product Manager Novell, Inc. Bruce Cutler Senior Engineer Novell Inc.

Vision…one Net A world where networks of all types—corporate and public, intranets, extranets, and the Internet—work together as one Net and securely connect employees, customers, suppliers, and partners across organizational boundaries Mission To solve complex business and technical challenges with Net business solutions that enable people, processes, and systems to work together and our customers to profit from the opportunities of a networked world

The Role of Novell NetWare ® NetWare is the keystone to the one Net vision NetWare is the Net services platform that enables resources to work together as one Net across all types of networks, corporate and public

What Does NetWare Do? NetWare 6 extends traditional networking into the Internet, giving anytime, anywhere access to users and administrators through thick, thin, and web environments

NetWare 6—Network OS of the YEAR! 2001 Technical Excellence Awards VAR Business Awards 2001 Comdex Best of Show 2001

Great Technology Everything that we’re known for in NW3.x/4.x/5.x — extended to the Internet! No Novell Client ™ required! World-wide access to your files (iFolder ™ ) Internet printing (iPrint) with full job control Scalable to 32 processors by 32 nodes NetWare WebAccess Clustering in the box Novell Storage Systems ™ (NSS) default file system It’s FAST!

Some of the MP-enabled services include: Multi-Processor-Enabled Novell Storage Services (NSS) Novell eDirectory ™ TCP/IP stack IBM WebSphere JVM Winsock HTTP stack WebDAV Apache/Enterprise web server Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) NetWare Core Protocol ™ (NCP) Service Location Protocol (SLP) Gigabit Ethernet/100 Mb Ethernet/10 Mb Ethernet

Migration Costs 55% higher cost to migrate to NT/2000 than to move to NetWare ($430 / user for NW4.x to W2K vs. $235 for NW4.x to NW 5.x) TCO for NetWare is Lower than Windows NT/W2K Source: Gartner Research. Feb 24, COM

Comparison of OS Upgrades and Support Novell Microsoft NetWare 3.x NetWare 4.x NetWare 5.x Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP Novell supports their OS’s for 10 – 12 Years Microsoft supports their OS’s for 3 – 4 Years

Microsoft’s Licensing They count devices You pay more money Microsoft would have you believe that 80% of their customers will see no change or will have a cost decrease Companies upgrading every three years would pay 22—47% more, with the increase jumping to 40—68% for four-year upgrades —Guernsey Research

Novell’s Licensing Novell counts ONLY user objects in the directory You save money Your license counting/ auditing is simplified

NetWare Reliability NetWare servers have been known to stay up for for over eight years…without touching them When was the last time you “bounced” your NT/2000 server? Microsoft actually RECOMMENDS that you reboot your server every month Is this truly % uptime?

NetWare 6 Out-Performs Windows

It’s FAST—Very Fast!

What Is Server Consolidation? File consolidation  Any server/volume to any server/volume in the same eDirectory tree  Works with Novell Cluster Services™ volumes on storage area networks Printer consolidation  Novell Distributed Printing Services™ (NDPS ® ) only  Any Printer Server Manager (PSM) to any other PSM

Why Lower cost of administration Less travel Pendulum swing back to “data center” concept Storage (clustering) and/or server consolidation NetWare 6 can host a whole lot more services NetWare 6 MP-enabled We take care of you  Consolidation/migration tools

What Can the Server Consolidation Utility Do (Today)? Copy all file system information Migrate data from direct attach storage (DAS) servers to storage area networks (SAN) Printers No other services (like Novell Groupwise ® ) yet

Server Consolidation Features Fast: Server-to-server copy (not going through the client) Uses proven SMS (backup) NetWare Loadable Modules ™ (NLM ™ ) to copy data From-to file systems  NSS to NSS or traditional  Traditional to NSS or traditional  Works with cluster volumes Copy  Entire volumes  Individual folders

More Features All file data copied (not moved)  Stream data  Attributes  Inheritance filters  Ownerships  Trustees  Size restrictions  Etc. (anything you can back up, we copy)

Move Printer Agents NDPS only Move (not copy) printer agents between print managers  Drag printer agent to new print manager  All printer agent information moved (not copied)  Can move multiple printers at once Limitations  Doesn’t migrate print jobs

Requirements Windows NT/2000/XP Novell Client32 ™ Common protocol between servers  IP  IPX

Demo

Beta Sites Needed Contact:  Send an to:  Beta FAQ:  Request to become a Beta Site for the “Novell NetWare Server Consolidation Utility”

Solutions/Options/ Tech Talk Tips and Tricks Use with clustering (two nodes in the box) Failover What else could you use this for? Other utilities that are available (MigWiz 6.1)

New Migration Utility (6.1) Migrate from 3.x to 5.x or 6 Migrate from 4.x or 5.x to 5.x or 6, 6-to-6 (hardware upgrade)  Folder-by-folder granularity Migrate from NT to 6

What Does the Future Hold? Nakoma Integrated configuration utility

Other Recommended Sessions IO 101 – NetWare Future Roadmap - Mon 12:45 / Wed 12:45 IO 102 – Six Reasons to get NW6 – Tues 4:30 / Thurs 4:30 / Fri 3:15 IO 105 – iPrint, Present and Future - Mon 11:15 / Wed 2:15 IO 204 – How Does NW6 Licensing Affect Me? - Wed 12:45/ Fri 12:15 TUT 101 – Consulting’s Best Practices for NW Migrations - Tues 9:30 / Thurs 3:00 TUT 104 – How to consolidate NetWare Servers – Wed 3:45 / Thurs 4:30 TUT 201 – Rapid and Remote NW6 Deployments - Tues 4:30 pm / Friday 12:15 TUT 202 – Consulting’s Best Practices for NW Upgrades – Tues 12:00 / Fri 12:15 TUT 203 – Upgrading NW 5 Clusters to NW 6 - Tues 12:00 / Thurs 12:00 TUT Integrating NW6 and Windows Mon 2:15 / Thurs 3:00 / Fri 12:15 TUT 208 – Customizing iPrint with the Map Designer – Tues 4:30 / Fri 1:45 TUT 209 – How to Size Compaq servers on NW – Mon 3:45 / Wed 3:45 TUT 265 – iPrint Deployment Strategies – Mon 2:15 / Wed 3:45 / Fri 3:15 TUT 301 – Technical Analysis of NW and it competition – Wed 12:45 / Thurs 1:30 TUT 303 – Integrating NW and Linux – Mon 3:45 / Thurs 3:00 TUT 305 – Understanding SLP v2 – Mon 2:15 / Thurs 4:30 DL 101 – Developing on Apache Tomcat for NetWare – Wed 11:15 / Fri 12:15 DL 201 – Application Development to NW6 and Modesto – Tues 4:30 / Thurs 4:30 DL 205 – Developing to J2EE on NetWare – Tues 12:00 / Thurs 1:30