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Success Centralizing and Clustering GroupWise Bringing GroupWise to a Data Center

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Success Centralizing and Clustering GroupWise Bringing GroupWise to a Data Center

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    1. Success Centralizing and Clustering GroupWise® Bringing GroupWise to a Data Center Gregg A. Hinchman Consultant Hinchman Consulting Gregg@HinchmanConsulting.com

    2. Introduction: Presentation Outline Introduction Speakers Presentation Business Planning Definitions and Tools Business Analysis Cluster and GroupWise® Design GroupWise Audit Implementation Move the GroupWise System Redesign GroupWise System Move User Mailboxes Summary

    3. Introduction: Speakers Gregg A. Hinchman Owner/Consultant, www.HinchmanConsulting.com 12+ years of GroupWise® Experience 6 years of Clustering experience Author: “Success with Clustering GroupWise 7” www.TayKratzer.com Co–Author: “Success with GroupWise Document Management” GroupWise Cool Solutions Articles Consultants Corner Series GroupWise Advisor Magazine Articles 8 years BrainShare Presenter 5 years GroupWise Advisor Summit Presenter

    4. Introduction: Presentation Business Topic We will discuss Best Practices for Redesigning, Consolidating and Clustering GroupWise® 7 Format Discussion will be led with supporting examples given Questions Please hold until 'Question Breaks' Knowledge: Advanced GroupWise Clustering Linux/NetWare®

    5. Planning: Definitions and Tools Definitions Consolidation –to reduce/collapse/merge together Move –to pick up and place in a different location Upgrade –to increase to a new version Migrate –to change while moving Cluster –a bunch of servers gathered round a Storage Area Network (SAN) 5 “9's” of Availability (99.999%) Tools Novell® Server Consolidation and Migration Utility GroupWise® Server Migration Utility GWCheck Support.Novell.Com Forums and Cool Solutions USB Drive/Planes/Trains/Automobiles Remote Desktop/VPN/GOTOMYPC.com

    6. Planning: Business Analysis Reasons to Consolidate? Old Style Design –Domain, PO, Gateway per remote site Faster WAN Links Virtualization of Servers Decrease Administrative Staff Decrease in GroupWise® Administration knowledge Centralization of Services to Data centers Clustering Business Continuance Disaster Recovery Save $$$

    7. Questions?

    8. Next Up: Planning

    9. Planning: Cluster and GroupWise® Design NetWare® Cluster Considerations LUN's SAN's –Support NetWare? Proper Carving and LUN Placement Naming Standards Cluster Nodes Virtual? Naming Standards Disk Space Pools/Volumes Naming Standards

    10. Planning: Cluster and GroupWise® Design More NetWare® Cluster Considerations Cluster Resources Naming Standards –Consider with GroupWise in mind IP Address Standards Protected Memory SET Commands for STARTUP.NCF All Agents in own memory space Naming Standards SLP/HOSTS

    11. Planning: Cluster and GroupWise® Design Linux Cluster Considerations Knowledge SLES or OES? File Systems: Reiser, NSS, EXT3 iManager, NSSMU, EVMS LUN's SAN's –Support OES Linux? Proper Carving and LUN Placement Naming Standards Cluster Nodes Support OES Linux? HBA's support OES Linux? Naming Standards

    12. Planning: Cluster and GroupWise® Design More Linux Cluster Considerations Disk Space Disk Segment Volumes Mount Points Cluster Resources Naming Standards –Consider with GroupWise in mind IP Address Standards SLP

    13. Planning: Cluster & GroupWise® Design Linux Cluster Installation Tips for GroupWise Agents must be installed on each cluster node Why?? –RPM database issues Log and Startup files are on cluster resource Designate one node as the “install node” On–line resource to “install node” prior to agent configuration Or create a Cluster Resource for Software Distribution Directory – on–line to node for agent configuration Import cluster data to all other nodes Create mount points on appropriate cluster nodes Can create mount point with cluster resource load script “ignore_error mkdir /mnt/mountpoint”

    14. Questions?

    15. Planning: Cluster and GroupWise® Design TSATEST Testing throughput to your SAN and LUN's Set a Baseline Test to a local volume Set a SAN test to a LUN on the SAN Set a Network test to a local volume on a different server Create Scripts to run the Commands TID: 10092890 Documentation: OES Linux http://developer.novell.com/documentation//samplecode/smscomp_linux_sample/tsatest/tsatest_linux.html#bswvivp Article: OES NetWare http://www.novell.com/communities/node/3085/consultants-corner-tsk-tsk-disk-disk

    16. Planning: Cluster and GroupWise® Design NetWare® Scripts BASETSATEST.NCF load tsatest /V=VOL1: /PATH=\TSATTEST /U=.admin.demo /P=novell /I=5 /ERR=sys:\etc\tsaErr.txt SANTSATEST.NCF load tsatest /V=SANVOL1: /PATH=\TSATTEST /U=.admin.demo /P=novell /I=5 /ERR=sys:\etc\tsaErr.txt CROSSTSATEST.NCF load tsatest /S=FS2 /V=FS2VOL1: /PATH=\TSATTEST /U=.admin.demo /P=novell /I=5 /ERR=sys:\etc\tsaErr.txt

    17. Planning: Cluster and GroupWise® Design Linux Scripts BASETSATEST ./tsatest --path={PATH to local disk} -U {USERNAME) -P {PASSWORD} -I 5 --log{=LOGFILE} SANTSATEST ./tsatest --path={PATH to attached SAN disk} -U {USERNAME) -P {PASSWORD} -I 5 --log{=LOGFILE} CROSSTSATEST ./tsatest -s {SERVER} --path={PATH to local disk} -U {USERNAME) -P {PASSWORD} -I 5 --log{=LOGFILE}

    18. Planning: Cluster and GroupWise® Design Virtualization of GroupWise Yes, you can. Yes it works. Even on a cluster. VMware ESX Virtualize NetWare® and/or Linux Virtualize a Cluster of NetWare and/or Linux Xen Virtualization SLES 10 sp1 SLES Virtual Machine Driver Pack -Windows OS's, RedHat 4,5 32 bit/64 bit Virtualize NetWare 6.5 sp7 (as part of OES2) Not all 'virtualized' servers on 1 VM box Test Throughput Test Network Throughput

    19. Questions?

    20. Planning: Cluster and GroupWise® Design Consider the Network Infrastructure How are end users going to connect? WebAccess/Caching/Online Number of Users? Number of Post Offices? Number of Gateways? Document the Design Clustering –Use a GroupWise Cluster Design Matrix

    21. Planning: Cluster and GroupWise® Design Example of Design Matrix for Cluster and GroupWise

    22. Planning: Cluster and GroupWise® Design Post Office Sizing

    23. Planning: Cluster and GroupWise® Design

    24. Questions?

    25. Planning: GroupWise® Audit (Health) Current Design Hub, Mesh, Mixed Topology Sizing –Users and 'On–Disk data' Post Offices per Domain Special Purpose Post Offices –DMS, Resources, etc. Gateway Usage –POP, IMAP, EMAIL, etc. Gateways per Domain Pending Operations User Move Status per domain, post office Link Configuration TCP/IP NOT UNC NOT MAPPED

    26. Planning: GroupWise® Audit (Health) MTA 2nd Priority Threads Bind Exclusively –IP Link Configuration and DNS Ports –Standard vs. non–Standard Verbose Logging Please eDirectory™ User Sync /Home–Volume:\directory /TCPINBOUND-600+ /TCPTRUNKWIDTH-4 –NOT anymore! Hard configure Ports/IP Addresses???

    27. Planning: GroupWise® Audit (Health) POA Bind Exclusively –IP Link Configuration and DNS Ports –Standard vs. non–Standard Verbose Logging Please /Home–Volume:\directory Scheduled Events –Contents with “attclip” –Orphaned Attachments –Bye Bye Scheduled Events –Structure/Index and Fix Hard configure Ports/IP Addresses???

    28. Questions?

    29. Next Up: Implementation

    30. Implementation: Move the GroupWise® System NetWare® Cluster and the Novell® Server Consolidation Utility Make sure SLP is properly configured All Servers should have an SMDR entry in SLP Make sure HOSTS file is filled in properly Stage your move process First, move it all at night/weekends (5-20+ hours) Second, do delta's to keep the files up-to-date (2.5 to 10+ hours) Third, move/cut over (2.5 to 10+ hours)

    31. Implementation: Move GroupWise® Moving GroupWise from Server to Server Connect to Domain being moved OR Post Office Domain Change the UNC's –Post Office, Domain, Library Storage (if needed) Change the SDD Change the POA/MTA IP Address, ports (if needed) Change the POA/MTA Log file path Unload the Agents Verify 'clean unlocked' status on DB's (wpdomain and wphost)

    32. Implementation: Move the GroupWise® System Linux Cluster and the GroupWise Server Migration Utility Move GroupWise Domains, Post Offices, Gateways Move from NetWare® and/or Windows to Linux Not Cluster Aware but Linux server can be member of cluster Cannot Update to new version of GroupWise while migrating (unlike with the NW Server Consolidation Utility) GroupWise 6.5 and 7 Source Servers: NetWare 4.2 to 6.5 (OES) Windows Server 2000 to 2003 Target Servers: SLES 8 to 10 (OES) Red Hat AS, 3 ES

    33. Questions?

    34. Implementation: Redesign the GroupWise® System Create the New Primary Domain Link the old Primary to the New Primary Convert the New Primary to Primary Create the New Post Office Domain(s) Link the New Domain(s) to the New Primary Do NOT link to the old Domains, until its time to move users Create the New Post Offices Create the Gateway Domains Create the Gateways Create Test Users Test the System Move Mailboxes

    35. Implementation: Move Users Mailboxes Why Move Users Mailboxes? System–wide and Individual user Maintenance and clean up Database Clean up Broken, orphaned attachments and Trash left behind Move User Formula: Size does matter!! Estimates of User Mailbox Moves Assumptions 15 mins. Average per mailbox 10 mailboxes moved at the same time, to 20 mailboxes moved at the same time 1 person moving all mailboxes Example Formula 400 mailboxes/20 mailboxes moved at 1 time =20 groups of mailboxes 20 groups x 15 mins. per group =300 mins. 300 mins./60mins. per hour =5hours.

    36. Implementation: Move Users Mailboxes To Move Users –Preparation Turn Off Virus Scanners Unload GWAVA (/vsnoadm) Contents Check with /attclip Support Option Turn off Schedule Maintenance Turn off QuickFinder Verify/Clear no previous User Move Status from all domains perspective Verify/Clear no pending operations Verify Link Configuration between Source, Destination and Primary domain are 'Direct, TCP/IP' Set POA Agent Settings Message Handler Threads =10 to 20 TCP Handler Threads =10 to 20 Max Thread Usage for Priming and Moves =80/90

    37. Implementation: Move Users Mailboxes To Move Users –Moving Connect to Destination Domain Select Source Post Office Select User to move Right Click –Move User View Tools| GroupWise® Utilities| User Move Status Set POA Logging to Verbose View Source/Destination POA for Status and Item count To Move Resources –Moving Reassign all Resources to 'temp' user in old post office Move Resources Reassign Resources to a 'ResourceMgr' user in the new post office when asked

    38. Implementation: Move Users Mailboxes F6 –Restart Monitor the Source/Destination/Primary Domain MTA's Problems Seen Frequent Contacts Password reset Shared Folders Visibility Document Management

    39. Real World Examples

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    49. Summary Review the Business Needs and Requirements Seek Knowledge Novell® Support Site, Forums, Cool Solutions, Books, Classes Find Help Consultants to fast–track Evaluate the Costs involved Plan the GroupWise® Redesign Process Document a new GroupWise Design Verify the Health of GroupWise Move/Redesign/Build Domains and Post Offices Move Users Enjoy easier management and 99.999% uptime

    50. Questions?

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