1. Successful GroupWise Clustering, Part 1 Gregg A. Hinchman www.HinchmanConsulting.com Ed Hanley Novell Inc.

2. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 2 Introduction, Presentation Outline I.Introduction A.Speakers B.Presentation Business II.Clustering Knowledge Transfer A.Clustering Theory B.Cluster Terms and Tools III.Planning for GroupWise A.Our Customer and their GroupWise System B.GroupWise Design Matrix C.Planning: Domain and MTA D.Planning: Post Office and POA E.Planning: WebAccess Agent and Application F.Planning: GWIA G.Planning: Failover Design IV.Summary

3. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 3 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

4. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 4 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”

5. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 5 Introduction, Presentation Business T opic 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

6. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 6 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

7. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 7 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

8. Questions?

9. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 9 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

10. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 10 Planning for GroupWise, Our Customer and their GroupWise System

11. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 11 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?

12. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 12 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

13. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 13 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

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15. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 15 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

16. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 16 Planning for GroupWise, GWIA What information must I have for the Internet Agent? Cluster Resource Name Volume Name Directory Path IP Address Port – HTTP

17. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 17 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

18. © January 8, 2009 Novell Inc. 18 Summary Knowledge: ● ATT Clustering Class ● Clustering Book -www.TayKratzer.com ● Consulting -Fast Track Planning: ● Hardware ● GroupWise Design Matrix ● IP Addresses, Ports, etc. ● Failover

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