Cluster issues

[Paul Allen]

Hello Alan
I am following the solution design doc put together by the system
architechs...its a design where a Post Offices has a maximum size of 50Gb
and where a Faculty will have multiple Post Offices...due to storage issues
not users....

This is due in part to no policies being put into place to limit user
mailbox sizes, the client is a large University and for Intellectual
Property reasons would like Faculties and research divisions in their own
Post Office...

cheers
paul

2009/8/29 Alan Downs <alan at precise-computer.com>

>
> My first question is why you have 26 PO's when GW can handle many, many
> users on each. I would lower my PO count, which would make the migration
> much less complex. I haven't done a SLES cluster yet, so I can't speak to
> that, just GW.
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from U.S. Cellular
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Allen <pallenr32 at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:45:33
> To: <novell at netlab1.oucs.ox.ac.uk>
> Subject: Cluster issues
>
>
> Hello
> This is my first post to this list...I hope I have come to the right place.
>
> I am currently working on a project to migrate Groupwise 7.0.3 from a 8 way
> Netware Cluster to a 6 way SLES 10 SP2 OES2 SP1 cluster.
>
> 26 Post Offices about 5000 users
>
> Sounds simple enough or so I thought...I built a pilot site in VM and all
> was working well
>
> But I have run into many issues, the show stopper at the moment is I have
> created 26 storage pools and have another 14 to create but they fail with
> nds -606 errors and the virtual server for the pools don't get created...I
> hope to open a SR with Novell on this Monday.
>
> Anyway, my question is whether to continue down this path or try another
> tack ?
>
> How many folks are running a clustered SLES10 SP2 OES2 environment ?
>
> How many are running  a clustered SLES11 HA environment ?
>
> My line manager would prefer I build the environment with Netware 6.5
> ....but these are 8 core servers running 16Gb ram seems a waste of hardware
> resources
>
> I can't help feeling some of the issues I have are hardware related, HBA
> timing...this is what I will be concertrating on this weekend as I have
> resources that go comatose rather than migrate...when i offline nodes.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated
>
> Cheers
> Paul
>
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