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Open Enterprise Server - in a Windows world

Madhan P

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Praveen Kumar S

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• Portfolio Vision and Strategy

• Recent Releases

• OES in a Windows world and TCO

• Upcoming releases

• On the Radar

• Q & A

Portfolio Vision and Strategy

File and Print Services Vision and Strategy

Vision Strategy

Provide enterprise-class file

services across Windows, OES,

and storage platforms to make

storing, accessing and printing

enterprise files easy, secure and

affordable.

● Advance File and Print solutions by providing new, high quality

value to our valued customers

● Continue the evolution of File Management offerings to

become a leader in File Analysis

● Deliver superior solutions in secure, file sync & share that

integrates seamlessly with existing file servers

● Provides best platform agnostic printing solution for customers

who wants secure, on-demand printing that works seamlessly

with their existing fleet of printers

Open Enterprise Server File and Print Services

Open Enterprise Server:

• Enterprise File and Print services

• More choice and flexibility through

support for Active Directory, new

Windows clients, and increased

storage capabilities

• Offerings that simplify IT

environment through single

Identity store

• Compelling reasons to move to

latest OES for all customers

Dynamic Storage Technology

(Storage Tiering including Cloud storage tiering)

Mobile File Sharing

(Filr- entitlement)

iPrint Desktop

(entitlement)

Clustering and Scalability 4 Node cluster promotion

eDirectory Active Directory Support

Storage Services (NSS) > 8 ExaBytes Support

Domain Services for Windows

(AD emulation)

File &

Print

Support Being Added

Improved

OES 2015 Promotion

Multi-Protocol Support

SMBv2 Support

Recent Releases

Disclaimer: This section provides an overview of future releases; due to market changes, customer enhancement requests, and other factors, product themes and timings are subject to change.

OES 2015 SP1

• Feature Themes:

• Micro Focus Branding and Platform Currency (based on SLES 11 SP4)

• File Services

• End user file recovery of deleted files without helpdesk intervention over CIFS

• Improvements in Mac interoperability and performance with CIFS

• Policy-based clean-up / purge of deleted files (based on time and file extension)

• Reduced disk fragmentation using improved disk storage allocation policies

• Enhancements to file system access audit (vigil) log filters

• Active Directory Support Improvements

• Allow access to NSS resources for users in multiple trusted AD Forests

• Ability for Active Directory users to access NSS over FTP in addition to CIFS

• User Right Map tool enhancements

• Simplified upgrade experience – introducing channel upgrade support for upgrading from OES 11 SP2 to OES 2015 SP1

Targeted Availability:

Shipping

Open Enterprise Server 2015

• NSS for Active Directory

• Native access to NSS for AD Users

• Benefits of NSS rights model to AD users

• OES server joins AD Domain – no copy of AD users

• Almost all existing backup and antivirus software work without any changes

• Large Storage Support

• Removal of 8 TB Limit

• NCP protocol updated

• Access supported over AFP, NCP & CIFS

• SMBv2 Support

• Beginning of a continuous steady stream of improvements to SMB stack

• Significant improvement in performance over SMBv1

• DFS Junction Management and other reliability and stability improvements

• iPrint enhancements – Direct print accounting and Browser Independent end user operations


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OES 11 SP3

• Feature Themes:

• Platform currency (based on SLES 11 SP4)

• Better hardware and driver support

• Bring the improvements in base SLES to OES

• Quality updates

• Roll up of OES11 SP2 patches and customer defect resolutions

• Minor changes due to Java version change

• Recommended upgrade path for OES11 SP2 is still OES 2015 SP1


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OES in a Windows world and TCO


Technologies enabling OES in a Windows World

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• Traditional (NetWare and OES Initial Releases)

• NCP and Client for OES (Novell Client) – File Access

• Login Scripts, Mapped Drives

• Salvage / Purge – Self service file recovery

• iPrint – Self service Printing

• iFolder – File sharing and Desktop backup

• NetStorage

• CIFS / SMB 1.0


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• Recent (in addition to existing ones)

• Domain Services for Windows – AD Emulation for common authentication needs

• SMB 2.0

• Native NSS and AD Integration

• Getting nightmares about switching to NTFS ?

• You don’t need to any longer

• Salvage / Purge over CIFS for eDirectory and AD users

• Rights management over CIFS for AD users


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• Coming Soon

• Client for OES (Novell Client) and AAF Integration (Multi-factor authentication)

• SMB 2.1 and 3.0

• Large packet transfers

• SMB Signing

• End to end encryption

• Domain Services for Windows – 2008 R2 and 2012 Schema Support

• Rights management over CIFS for eDirectory users

The TCO Angle

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• Cost benefits of managing NSS filesystem vs NTFS are very well known

• Less administrators

• Efficient storage management

• Native storage tiering options

• Performance and Scalability

• More connections per server

• Better throughput on file access

• Better Security and Rights model

• Dynamic ACL’s

• Automatic SEV refresh – don’t ask users to logout and login for changed

permissions to take effect

An NSS AD Case Study


Real-world Case Study

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• Customer is in the process of evaluation of IT Systems and consolidation

• Consolidate Identities on AD

• Previously this mean moving file services to NTFS as well

• Not anymore, with NSS AD Integration

• Wants to evaluate the cost of moving to NTFS vs adopting NSS AD

• Next few slides speak for themselves

• Summary : Don’t bring file service migration into a Identity consolidation

project (you don’t need to anymore). Keeps the costs low.

• Save on not just the one time migration cost, but the long term TCO as well

• Novell File and Print Estate

• 4 customer corporate sites connected via 100MB fibre:

• 1 x 6 Node Novell OES11 SP2 Cluster

• 24 Clustered Resources (Volumes) connected to the Clustered Nodes.

• 50TB of data help in clustered volumes (25 million files approx.).

• 12 other Novell Servers over the 4 customer sites fulfilling other requirements.

• 3000 Novell Workstations connected both to Novell and an existing AD Domain.

• IDM in place to sync users and groups between Novell and Active Directory.

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Current IT Infrastructure

• Existing AD Domain is out of date (Windows 2008) and needs updating

• Need to simplify workstation build and to get rid of the Novell Client.

• “Does the company need two Directory’s” (AD and Novell).

• Application support for the Directory of choice.

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The need for AD migration

• Traditional OES to AD Migration

• Based on the sample site at least 6 weeks work

• Risk to the line of business

• Requirement to move workstations as soon as volume is migrated

• OES2015

• Based on the sample site 1 weeks (worst case) for volume migration.

• Minimising risk to the line of business

• No immediate requirement to move workstations.

• Full access to AD Clients to files on the NSS Volume.

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Summary of Approaches

• NSS is seen as native AD Storage conceptually the same as a NETAPP or

other device.

• Clustering, Storage Tiering and DFS (Novell) are fully supported.

• 4 additional cluster licences available at zero license cost (just pay

maintenance for these additional nodes)

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Benefits of OES2015

Some large NSS-AD deployments

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• Australian State Govt Health Agency - 400+ servers / 30,000+ users

• French Government Agency - 1000+ Servers / 50,000 users

• UK Media Company - 20,000+ users / spread across Europe

• It’s READY.

Upcoming Releases


1H 2016 2H 2016 1H 2017

Open Enterprise Server Roadmap New and Upcoming Releases

Committed Shipping Planned

‒ Micro Focus branding

‒ File system improvements to increase

performance and enhance disk utilization

‒ Enhanced Active Directory integration

‒ CIFS / SMB stack improvements

‒ Automated upgrade channel introduced

‒ Recommended upgrade path for OES11

SP2

OES 2015 SP1

‒ Platform currency – SLES11 SP4

‒ Rollup of bug fixes and customer patches

‒ Recommended upgrade path for all customers is still OES 2015 SP1

OES 11 SP3

‒ Win 2008 / 2012 Schema Update

‒ Release vehicle – Patch for OES2015 SP1

DSfW Update

‒ Platform and ecosystem currency

‒ SLES 12, eDirectory 9

‒ Unified update channel

‒ SMB Updates (2.1,3.0, Mac Salvage, etc)

‒ NSS Improvements

‒ Cloud storage integration for “cold” data *

OES ‘Vega’

‒ iPrint Appliance features on OES *

‒ Release vehicle – Add-on to OES2015 SP1

‒ Pricing / Licensing Model remains the same as with iPrint appliance

iPrint Update

Updates to OES 2015 SP1

• Feature Themes:

• DSfW Update

• Support for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 Schema

• Beta planned to start around Oct 2016

• iPrint Update

• Deliver iPrint Appliance capabilities as add-on to OES

• Now you can use the appliance capabilities with your existing OES iPrint infrastructure

• Mobile Printing

• Email Printing

• WalkUp Printing

• No Pricing / Licensing / Entitlement changes


Q1 2017

Open Enterprise Server ‘Vega’ • Platform and ecosystem currency

• Newer hardware platform and technology support – SLES 12

• Update OES to include the updated version of eDirectory – eDirectory 9

• No separate add-on media. Only Integrated DVD media.

• Enhancements to SMB stack – relevant capabilities of SMB 2.1 and 3.0

• Improved performance ; end to end encryption support ; password management

• Lower TCO

• Unified OES update channel – SLES and OES updates from a single repository

• NSS Improvements

• Better Storage allocation ; Support for online defragmentation * ; Exponentially increase the limit on number of files

• Adding support for secondary cloud tier for storage of “cold” / back up data *

• iFolder Status - Update

• Additional enhancements from OES community submitted via IDEAS Portal

• Client for OES (Novell Client) for Mac ? No, but native shell extension supporting Salvage /

Purge, Rights Management for Mac in phases.


Q3 2017

Other Updates

• BCC Support for OES 2015 and OES2015 SP1

• iFolder Status


Q3 2017

What’s on the Radar

File and Print Market Opportunities

Relentless attention on decreasing total cost of ownership

Enable ability to leverage new storage models and technologies

Authentication improvements for stronger interoperability

Security and compliance demands from regulated industries

Community driven requirements and enhancements (IDEAS)

On the Radar… (OES)

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• Improving support for heterogeneous and mixed environments

• Storage Services

• File Access – performance and ease of access improvements

• Management - improvements and performance

• Simplify install, deployment, upgrade and management experience

• Appliance form factor; Docker and other container support

• Reduce training needs and learning curve

• Hosting OES in the cloud – Azure, Amazon, …

• Lower TCO

• Deeper integration with cloud and object storage for specific use cases

• Investigate support for SUSE Storage, CleverSafe, etc.

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