Advisor.com Living the Highly- Available-GroupWise Lifestyle Author: Gregg A. Hinchman Company: Hinchman Consulting SNG305

Advisor.com Introduction: Outline  Introduction Speaker Speaker Presentation Business Presentation Business  Knowledge Transfer Theory Theory Terms and Tools Terms and Tools  Recommendations GroupWise Re-design GroupWise Re-design  Domains  Post Offices  Gateways Clustering Clustering  Business Continuity  Summary

Advisor.com Introduction: Speaker  Gregg A. Hinchman Self-Unemployed Consultant, Self-Unemployed Consultant, years of GroupWise Experience 11+ years of GroupWise Experience 5 years of Clustering experience 5 years of Clustering experience Author: Author:  “Success with Clustering GroupWise 7” Co-Author: Co-Author:  “Success with GroupWise Document Management” GroupWise Coolsolutions Articles GroupWise Coolsolutions Articles  Consultants Corner GroupWise Advisor Magazine Articles GroupWise Advisor Magazine Articles

Advisor.com Introduction: Presentation Business  Topic We will discuss how to design a GroupWise 7 system to be highly available and fault tolerant. We will discuss how to design a GroupWise 7 system to be highly available and fault tolerant.  Format Discussion will be led with supporting examples given. Discussion will be led with supporting examples given.  Questions Please hold until “Question Breaks” Please hold until “Question Breaks”  Knowledge: Advanced GroupWise 7 Advanced GroupWise 7 Clustering Theory Clustering Theory  Related Sessions: Upgrades for the One-Minute Administrator Upgrades for the One-Minute Administrator Successful GroupWise 7 Tricks of the Trade Successful GroupWise 7 Tricks of the Trade Clustering GroupWise 7 on OES Linux Clustering GroupWise 7 on OES Linux

Advisor.com Knowledge Transfer: Definitions and Tools  Theory Business Continuance Business Continuance More the Merrier More the Merrier Cost of Downtime Cost of Downtime  Terms and Tools Highly Available vs. High Availability Highly Available vs. High Availability Fault Tolerant vs. Fault Resilient Fault Tolerant vs. Fault Resilient Webster: relaxed, patient, understanding vs. elastic/flexible, tough, resistant Webster: relaxed, patient, understanding vs. elastic/flexible, tough, resistant DNS/DHCP/SLP -GroupWise is only as good as DNS/DHCP/SLP -GroupWise is only as good as

Advisor.com Recommendations: GroupWise Redesign  Domains Primary Primary More than 1, please More than 1, please Too many Too many Mesh Topology Design Mesh Topology Design Special Purpose Domains Special Purpose Domains

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Advisor.com Recommendations: GroupWise Redesign  Post Offices Just 1 More than 1 Too many Special Purpose Post Offices  Document Management  Resources/Distribution Lists

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Advisor.com Recommendations: GroupWise Redesign  Gateways -WebAccess Agent Its Own domain 250 to 500 users per Agent Disposable Gateway  2+ WebAccess Agents Highly Available Fault Tolerant  2+ WebAccess Agents High Availability Fault Resilient

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Advisor.com Recommendations: GroupWise Redesign  Gateways -GWIA It’s own Domain  2 GWIAs Highly Available Fault Tolerant  2 GWIAs High Availability Fault Resilient  Special Purpose GWIAs POP3/IMAP Internal ONLY  The Border 2 Points of Entry AntiSpam/AntiVirus Appliance -GWGuardian

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Advisor.com Recommendations: Clustering  What's a Cluster?  Why Cluster?  Where Cluster?  Consolidations into centralized data centers  Disaster Recovery Sites  OES NetWare vs. OES Linux Clusters  Planning and Documenting  Proper Implementation  Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI

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Advisor.com  What's a Business Continuity Cluster (BCC)?  Why BCC?  Where to BCC?  Multiple Sites  Disaster Recovery Sites  Considerations and Cost  Fibre Channel SANs  High Speed Links  SAN-based Data Synchronization

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Advisor.com Summary  Business Analysis  What can you afford?  What can you do for “free”?  Plan, Plan, Plan  Document, Document, Document  Training  Hire the Expertise

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