Clustering

Paul Cowper

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May 18, 2009, 2:11:27 PM5/18/09

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Have client with NSBS6.5 SP7 using the included 2-node cluster licence.
They want to migrate to a Linux platform; trouble is I can't see
anything about clustering in the Novell small business Linux products.
Does NOWS have clustering? Or what?

Client also wants to have the shared data volumes mirrored (that means 2
RAID 5 arrays, one a mirror of the other). They want to do this with
each half of the mirror on different sites, connected by GB fibre.
Current cluster setup is iSCSI with a NW65 server configured as the
shared data.

I have investigated using NSS mirroring which looks like it will work
for them. Has anyone any experience of a similar setup?

Which Novell Linux products include NSS? Or is there a different
mirroring product available in Linux?

Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks
Paul

Anders Gustafsson

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May 23, 2009, 2:20:25 AM5/23/09

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Paul Cowper,

> Which Novell Linux products include NSS? Or is there a different
> mirroring product available in Linux?
>

Let me ask.

- Anders Gustafsson (Sysop)
The Aaland Islands (N60 E20)

Novell has a new enhancement request system,
or what is now known as the requirment portal.
If customers would like to give input in the upcoming
releases of Novell products then they should go to
http://www.novell.com/rms

Anders Gustafsson

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May 26, 2009, 2:58:18 PM5/26/09

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Novell's reply: "His upgrade path is going to be OES2SP1 Linux"

- Anders Gustafsson (Sysop)
The Aaland Islands (N60 E20)

Novell has a new enhancement request system,

or what is now known as the requirement portal.

Anders Gustafsson

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May 27, 2009, 6:02:18 AM5/27/09

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"It is on the roadmap that NSS will be supported in 2.5 and thus
Clustering would be as well. However, it may not be included for free
and customers will have to purchase it as an add on. The ETA is
approximately mid to late 2009"

Paul Cowper

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Jun 12, 2009, 5:02:55 AM6/12/09

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Thanks, Anders.

Is that 2.5 of NOWS or OES Linux? I think OES2 Linux probably already
supports NSS and Clustering, but the documentation available is often
ambiguous and confusing.

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Massimo Rosen

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Jun 12, 2009, 5:35:41 AM6/12/09

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Hi,

Paul Cowper wrote:
>
> Thanks, Anders.
>
> Is that 2.5 of NOWS or OES Linux?

NOWS-SBE.

> I think OES2 Linux probably already
> supports NSS and Clustering,

But absolutely, however NOES-SBE is a different beast.

CU,
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Paul Cowper

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Jun 12, 2009, 6:04:07 AM6/12/09

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Thanks, Massimo.

So if I understand correctly, NOWS and NOWS-SBE will both support NSS
and Clustering in v2.5, although there may be additional costs (as yet
unknown) for these.

p

Massimo Rosen

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Jun 12, 2009, 7:03:18 AM6/12/09

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Hi,

Paul Cowper wrote:
>
> Thanks, Massimo.
>
> So if I understand correctly, NOWS and NOWS-SBE will both support NSS
> and Clustering in v2.5,

No. There is no such thing as a vesion with NOWS, and NOWS already and
always supports both.

We're exclusively talking about NOWS-SBE here, and that is not in any
way shape or form to be confused or related with NOWS (the full
product). The two are at best very loosely related, despite the very
similar name. NOWS is just a bundle of multiple, unaltered products that
each are available individually too, e.g NOWS is not a product.

NOWS-SBE OTOH is a product in itself with significant differences in
multiple areas to the base products it is build upon.

> although there may be additional costs (as yet
> unknown) for these.

Everything is unknown at this point. There is no formal announcement of
any kind.

Paul Cowper

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Jun 12, 2009, 7:12:51 AM6/12/09

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IC that's very useful info - thanks Massimo.
p

Anders Gustafsson

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Jun 12, 2009, 9:25:34 AM6/12/09

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Paul Cowper,

> Is that 2.5 of NOWS
>

That one.