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Novell® Open Enterprise ServerRoadmap and Future
Martin Weiss
Senior Architect Infrastructure
Klaus Hild
Principal Technology Specialist
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Agenda
Product Highlights
Open Enterprise Server 11 SP1
Open Enterprise Server 11 SP2
Open Enterprise Server Altair & Beyond
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Novell Open Enterprise Server
iPrint
Dynamic StorageTechnology
Domain Services for Windows
Multi-ProtocolSupport
eDirectory
Clustering and High Availability
Offline File Access(iFolder)Search
(QuickFinder)
Novell Storage Services (NSS)
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Product Line Highlights
• December 2012 OES11 SP1 Ships
• OES Upgrade Best Practices Guide Updated
• Windows 8 Support added
• Novell Consulting Best Practices Guide for
OES11 released.
• Novell Kanaka 2.8 released
• eDirectory 8.87 for OES2 / OES 11
• IDM 4 Bundle Edition released
• BCC 2.0 for OES11SP1 released
• SUSE Manager Support added
• Feedback and statistics show OES11SP1 has
been one of the most stable releases of OES.
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Best Practices
Support Offerings
Free Training
See more at - OES Blog
Upgrade Resources
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OES 11 Support Pack 1
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Open Enterprise Server 11 SP1Over 50 new features including:
• Enhanced Management Capabilities
• New Cluster Services Management
• Simplified Linux User Management
• Ease of Deployment
• Single DVD install
• DSFW express installation
• Virtualization Interoperability
• Added Hyper-V and KVM support
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OES11 Support Pack 1Feature Summary
Single DVD Install
• Simplified integrated Installation
• No more swapping DVDs for
install/upgrade
FTP remote Home Directory
• Centralized and flexible FTP file
access
• User Auto-login to the home
Directory specified in eDirectory
• Designed for additional scalability
Updated Ecosystem Support
• SLES11SP2, NICI 2.7.7,
eDirectory 8.8.7
eDirectory Updates
• Improved performance & scale
• New debugging tools
Domain Services
for Windows
• Express Install
• Automated Install
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OES11 Support Pack 1 Feature Summary - Continued
Simplified Linux User Mgmt.
• Enhanced Workflows
• Ability to LUM enable by eDirectory
Container
AFP Sub-tree search
• Simplifies Administration for Macs
• All users found in child OUs are
automatically enabled
Virtualization Interoperability
• VMware, Xen, Citrix Xen today
• Hyper-V, KVM added for SP1
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OES11 Support Pack 1 Feature Summary - Continued
• Migration Tools
• Faster sync performance
• Get patch for NW source
• Copy only Dir Trustees option
• Do not copy Trustees option
• File System Management
• NCP Enable volumes in NSSMU
• Metamig Utility – save/restore
trustees
• Restore from Trustee.nlm
• Nssquota tool
• Now supports volume quotas
• Clear option removes quotas
Btrfs File system Support
• Use Btrfs with a Novell Cluster,
Novell Client, or with the root
partition
• Use File level snapshots to revert
unwanted changes
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OES11 Support Pack 1 Feature Summary - Continued
Novell Cluster Services
• STONITH – kill nodes via remote
power control
• New Cluster Migrate Options
• -list, -most, -next
• New Management views
• My Clusters
• My Resources
New Management Possibilities
Print Admin wants to view only Print
resources spread among multiple
clusters
Admin wants to see single view of health
of multiple clusters
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How many IT hours does it take to Upgrade your Servers?
Save Significant deployment costs through OES Automated Upgrade.
Automated Upgrades
Reduce Downtime• Upgrade all servers from a central location
• Available for OES2 64bit upgrades
• Upgrade runs “unattended”
• One template to upgrade all your servers
• Passwords encrypted for high security
Installation Server
Servers to be upgraded “unattended.
Automated & Unattended Upgrades
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OES11SP1 - ndsgrepair
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Keep Mac users productive with Novell AFP + NCS + Kanaka
New in Kanaka 2.7
• Usability - Updated UI
• Productivity - Novell Login Script Support
• Security – Generate your own SSL Cert.
• Collaboration – Container based storage
Security Fix included in 2.8
Mac Connectivity - Kanaka 2.7 / 2.8
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OES 11 Support Pack 2
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Open Enterprise Server 11 SP2 –Highlights
• SLES SP3
• Simplified Install / Deployment
• NetIQ eDirectory 8.8 SP8 (notice the re-branding)
• XDAS is bundled in OES
• DSfW Enhancements
• Management & Monitoring Enhancements
• Numerous stability and reliability fixes
• Improved 3rd Party Interoperability (Anti-virus
and Backup)
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Benefits from SLES11 SP3
• New hardware support means more, and better, scale-up capabilities
– New hardware support - Processors, SSD Cards, 4096 logical CPUs, 16 TB
RAM
– Latest open source hypervisors with increased vCPU and memory limits
– Platform for resource intensive workloads
• Achieve better scale-out with storage, file system and networking
enhancements
– 8G/16G FC, 10G/40G Ethernet
– Improved iSCSI, FCoE Support, OFED 1.5.4
– Improved IPv6 Support
• Scale up or scale out and run your mission-critical workloads more
securely
– EAL4+, FIPS, UEFI Secure Boot
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Save Significant deployment costs through OES Automated Virtual or Physical deployments.
OES Autoyast Tool • OES AutoYast Tool
• Configure First – Automated Deployment later
• Create unique Server Deployments
• Edit existing Server profiles
• Clone Servers or modify a clone
Single Screen Install
Saves time and removes complexity of manually writing scripts such as this -
Note: Ship date to be determined.
Simplified and Automated Deployments
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NetIQ eDirectory 8.8 SP8
• IPv6 Support (not in OES)
• SSD Support
• XDAS is now bundled in OES & includes enhancements
• Event System Enhancements
– IP Information, Cache, Statistics
• Scalability Improvements
– Async Skulker, Policy based replication
– Obituary processing and others
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Business Apps require
AD authentication?
Leverage your best-in-class
eDirectory identity store for
all apps in your enterprise
Go Clientless leveraging login
scripts through AD
Group Policies.
Included Updates• NCP Client integration
• Sites & Subnets
• MAC Support
• NTLM Support
• WINS
• Windows 8 Clients
Cross-Platform AuthenticationDomain Services for Windows
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OES Management & Clustering
• File Server Management & Monitoring
• CIFS/AFP – File / Connection - Management & Monitoring in NRM
• [Public] Trustee for DFS Junctions
• DST Quotas
• NRM Health Monitoring now uses Nagios / Ganglia.
• NLVM Enhancements, more command line options
• Ownership Change scripts
• Clustering
• Node Order / Failover Order change - immediate effect
• eDirectory status monitoring
• Un-share without stopping NCS
• Multipath I/O Changes (from SLES11 SP3)
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Other Changes
• Significant fixes in the following areas
• CIFS Reliability
• CIFS Mac access
• iManager Storage and Cluster Plugin optimization
• Renames and Trustee fixes
• NSS xattr changes improving backup
• Delete path fixes improving anti-virus software interoperability
• Migration
• Better progress monitoring
• Improved log views
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OES Altair and Beyond
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NSS access for AD users
Allows corporations with mandate to consolidate to one
directory ( AD) to leverage NSS file system investment
and keep NSS features/benefits.
– Retain IRF’s / Visibility
– User maps via CIFS to
NSS, and leverages AD
group policies for client
drive mappings
– Works for eDirectory and
AD environment
– MMC manages MS
rights on NSS volumesOES
NSS Storage
User Workstations
Authentication
Kerberized CIFSaccess
Windows / AD Server
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File Server Updates - > 8TB NSS Pools
• Add support for > 8 TB NSS Pools
– In-place Upgrade ?
– Across the wire Migration - migtools
– Pool Move and Convert ( manual )
– Large files – beyond 8TB
• Benefits
– Supports data center growing storage needs > 8TB volumes
and file sizes
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File Server Updates
Technical Enhancements:
• Delayed Block Allocation ( faster read on disk)
• Spinlock avoidance for cached reads ( fast cache read)
• Big Submit BIO – Write
• Integrated DirCache for NCP/CIFS
Benefits:- Faster read & write performance- Reduced login times- Faster Backups
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Standards Support / Keeping pace
• SMB v2 / v3
• IPv6
• SSD Optimizations in File Stack
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OES11 SP1
• SLES11 SP2
• Better Virt. Support
• Btrfs Support
• Single DVD Install
• NCS Enhancements
• Automated Upgrade
• Others
OES11SP2:
• SLES11 SP3
• DSfW Enhancements
• DST Quotas
• eDirectory 8.8.8, XDAS
• Monitoring Enhancements
• File Access Protocol stability improvements
• Improved enablement of 3rd
party AntiVirus and Backup Software
• Simplified Install
Client Support:
• Windows 8.1 - Blue 8.1
• OS X 10.9 - Mavericks
Single Update Channel
• Combine SLES updates and OES updates in a single channel for OES customers.
• Improves patch reliability and stability.
Novell OESMoving Forward
Focus: Deployment inhibitorsand defect fixes
Focus: Client Platform Enablement, Quality focus in patches
Focus: AD Support / Interoperability
2013
Bi-monthly Patch updates
Altair :
• NSS AD Support
• > 8 TB Support
• NSS Performance Improvements
• eDirectory Update
1H 2014
Windows 8 Support
IDM 4 Bundle Edition
eDirectory 887 for OES2 & OES11
BCC 2.0 (OES11 SP1)
Added SUSE Manager Support
OES2 SP3 / OES11
• Last scheduled Patches –July 2013
Future (2015 & Later):
• IPv6 Support
• SMB v2 / v3
• NSS Defragmentation
• ClusterPool Snapshot
Late 2014 / Early 2015
2H 2012
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OES and Novell Filr
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Novell® Filr User Features
• Access to corporate files from any device
• Share files both internally and externally
• Receive notifications and make comments on files
• Full text search across all files and comments
• Access to files even when offline
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Novell® Filr Overview
• Windows XP, 7, 8
• Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8
• iOS 5.x, 6.x (iPhone, iPad)
• Android 2.3, 4.x
• BlackBerry 10
• Web access
Users can still access files using mapped drives
• Novell® Open Enterprise Server & NetWare
• Windows Server and compatible NAS devices
• File system rights andquotas honored
• No server agents or schema extensions required
• Leading storage appliances will be certified
• Software appliances deployed on VMware
• LDAP provisioning of users and groups
• MySQL and Lucene used for meta-data and search
• Policy-controlled accessand sharing
• Files remain on your existing file servers
Clients ServersFilr
HTTPS CIFS/NCP
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Networking & Management
NSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SPx
Novell Cluster Services
iPrintiFolder
Novell Filr
Novell
eDirectory
Novell iManager
DNS & DHCP
DFS w/ Junction Support
Dynamic Storage Technology
Domain Services for Windows
XEN Virtualization (optional)
Novell Remote Manager
SAMBA AFP stack CIFS stack
POSIX File Systems
Auto YaST
File Storage
Interoperability
User & IT Productivity
Novell Client
A & VNovell Filr
Enhanced Upgrade Utilities
NetStorage
Novell Filr
Identity Manager 3.6 Bundle Edition
Workloads with Deployment Flexibility
Novell Linux Volume Manager
QuickFinder
Novell Filr
OES11 with Novell® Filr
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