The Art of Business Continuance Brad Rupp WG Storage Engineering Novell Gregg A. Hinchman Consultant Hinchman Consulting

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 2 Introduction Presentation Outline Introduction – Speakers – Presentation Business Planning – Definitions and Tools – Design What's New for Business Continuity Clustering 1.1? – Prerequisites – New Features/Benefits Summary

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 3 Introduction Speakers Brad Rupp Senior Software Engineer, Novell ®, Inc. Team lead, Novell Business Continuity Cluster development Architect, Novell Business Continuity Cluster Team member, Novell Cluster Services development Not so cool blogger

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 4 Introduction Speakers Gregg A. Hinchman Self-Unemployed Consultant, years of GroupWise ® Experience 5 years of Clustering experience Author: > “Success with Clustering GroupWise 7” Co-Author: > “Success with GroupWise Document Management” GroupWise ® Cool Solutions Articles > Consultants Corner GroupWise Advisor Magazine Articles

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 5 Introduction Presentation Business Topic – We will discuss Novell ® Business Continuity Cluster 1.1. Format – Discussion will be led with supporting examples given. Questions – Please hold until 'Question Breaks' Knowledge – Advanced Cluster Knowledge – Open Enterprise Server Linux/NetWare ®

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 6 Introduction Presentation Business Related Sessions: – Consultants Corner: Successful GroupWise ® 7 Consolidations – TUT109: Clustering GroupWise 7 on Open Enterprise Server Linux – TUT202: Migrating a NetWare ® cluster to an OES Linux cluster – BUS320: Business Continuity Clustering Deployments Solutions lab "Stop by table A-10" (this is the Business Continuity Clustering" table

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 7 Planning Definitions and Tools Definitions – Disaster – BCC – RTO -Recovery Time Objective – RPO -Recovery Point Objective – Synchronous and Asynchronous – High Speed Link – Active and Passive – LUN's > 1 LUN to 1 Cluster Resource (Pool) to 1 Volume Tools – iManager – IDM – DNS/DHCP/SLP -... is only as good as... – Dynamic routing (RIP/OSPF)

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 8 Planning Definitions and Tools What is Business Continuity Clustering? Building ABuilding B Server1aServer2aServer3aServer4aServer1bServer2bServe3bServer4b Fibre Channel Disk Array Fibre Channel Disk Array Fibre Channel Switch Fibre Channel Switch WAN SAN Disk Blocks Ethernet Switch Cluster Site 1Cluster Site 2 Two Independent clusters at geographically separate sites eDirectory ™ DirXML

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 9 Planning Definitions and Tools What is Business Continuity Clustering? Step 1 Primary Site Failure Novell Services GroupWise PrintingFile Shares XX Novell Services GroupWise PrintingFile Shares Novell Services GroupWise PrintingFile Shares Step 2 Novell Services Run On 2 nd Site Step 3 ~ Potential 2nd Site Failure ~ Novell Services Fall Over to 3 rd Site Step 4 ~ Potential 2nd Site Failure ~ Novell Services Fall Over to 2 rd Site Data Center One High Speed Network Data Center Two Data Center Three Business Continuity Cluster

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 10 Planning Design Business Analysis and needs -RTO/RPO SANs and Sites – How Many Sites? – Where are the sites? – What SAN's? Implementation Planning – What/Where/When/Why/How – eDirectory ™ Design – Active/Passive vs. Active/Active – Mirroring -Asynchronous vs. Synchronous – Network Infrastructure and VLANs or Not

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© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 12 What's New with Business Continuity Clustering 1.1, Prerequisites Data replication – SAN vs. Host based mirroring – Network Link between sites – Fiber distance between sites – Synchronous or Asynchronous – Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) or SAN specific proprietary management software eDirectory ™ – One tree or multiple trees? Identity Manager (IDM) – What about single trees?

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 13 What's New with Business Continuity Clustering 1.1, Prerequisites OES Linux – Version and patches > See the requirements page of the documentation – OpenWBEM – Linux User Management > LUM enabled users and groups – User for inter-cluster communication > eDirectory ™ rights > Credentials

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 14 What's New with Business Continuity Clustering 1.1, Features/Benefits Open Enterprise Server NetWare ® – Version and patches > See the requirements page of the documentation > LibC – OpenWBEM – User for inter-cluster communications > eDirectory ™ rights > File system rights – Mixed operating systems (Linux and NetWare)

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 15 What's New with Business Continuity Clustering 1.1, Features/Benefits SMI-S Support – Perl based Common Information Model (CIM) client – Load and unload – Extensible (e.g. Dynamic DNS) – Support for vendor specific management technologies – Involve your SAN vendor. They are the experts.

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 16 What's New with Business Continuity Clustering 1.1, Features/Benefits Auto Fail Over – Monitors > Node count > Node percentage > Connection timeout > Ping (future) > Other – How it works – What can go wrong – Auto fail over vs. manual fail over – which is better?

© Novell Inc. All rights reserved 17 Summary Define Business Needs and Requirements Plan the Implementation Document the Plan Acquire the Expertise – Training – Consultants (need expertise in both BCC and the SAN) – SAN Vendor Regularly test the plan

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