Migrating Novell ®  Open Enterprise Server from NetWare ®  to Linux Chris Beckett and Volkmar Ruzicka Technical Consultant / Technical Consultant NDS8 / NetAgents [email_address]  /  [email_address]
Hot Lab Agenda About Your Presenters
Lab Scenario / Migration Options
Tenets of a Successful Consolidation
Pre-Migration Checklist / Pre-Flight Checks
Building The Target Server /  NetWare ®  vs Open Enterprise Server Linux
Services Ported To Linux / Managing Your Open Enterprise Server
Linux User Management – When/Why?
Using The Migration Tool
Configure New Services on Open Enterprise Server 2
Wrap Up / Question and Answer
About Your Presenters
About Your Presenters Chris Beckett Technical Consultant at NDS8, Novell Platinum Partner
Over 14 years Novell ®  products experience
Specialised in Open Enterprise Server, NetWare ® , GroupWise ® , ZENworks ® Volkmar Ruzicka Technical Consultant
Over 22 years Novell products experience
Specialised in GroupWise, NOESL Clustering  BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Lab Scenario / Migration Options
Lab Scenario OH-LABS Tree Single NetWare ®  6.5 SP8 server Master replica holder for the tree
Tree Certificate Authority
SYS and DATA NSS volumes
Several Novell ®  products running on this server FTP
iPrint
NetStorage
QuickFinder
DNS/DHCP
Novell Storage Services ™  and eDirectory ™  (of course!)
Lab Scenario FS1 NetWare ®  6.5 SP8 eDirectory ™  8.7 172.16.1.1 FS2 Open Enterprise Server 2 SP2 eDirectory 8.8 172.16.1.2
Migration Options
Migration Options Migration Tool Transfer ID process – one to one server “swap”
Consolidation – many to one server
GUI console with step by step guide
Installed with Open Enterprise Server 2 SP2, no separate download required
Step by step process, with rollback possible in case of failure Other tools ? Command line tools, JRBUtils, scripted installations
SCMT only supports NetWare ® /NT/2000/2003 to NetWare
Migration Options Migration Tool This lab concentrates on the lab tool, using the “Transfer ID” process
GUI makes the process easy to follow, with options to re-do steps, should they fail
Tool is run from the target (Open Enterprise Server 2) server console Lab assumptions Familiarity with Novell ®  core Open Enterprise Server product stack (iPrint, Novell Storage Services ™  etc)
Basic knowledge of Linux (GNOME desktop) Directory structure (/var /opt /etc)
Familiarity with the Open Enterprise Server 2 installation process
Tenets of a Successful Consolidation
Tenets of a Successful Consolidation Step 1: Prepare Your Environment
Step 2: Plan Your Migrations
Step 3: Create a Server Build Process
Step 4: The First Server
Step 5: All Other Servers
Step 6: Cleanup and Decommission
Step 1: Prepare Your Environment All servers should be running a supported OS NetWare ®  5.1 sp8, or NetWare 6.5 sp7/8, or  Open Enterprise Server Linux 1 sp1 Novell ®  eDirectory ™  should be 8.7.3.9+ or 8.8+  on ALL servers
Verify all software in use is compatible with eDirectory 8.8 Novell ZENworks ®  2.x, Identity Manager 3.x, no IPX, etc. Perform a complete eDirectory health check
Review your Time Synchronisation, check all Servers
Are all Network Printers at least NDPS or iPrint connected
Clean up stale login scripts
Delete stale data
Test your Backup Software on the target platform  To be able to restore after the migration
Step 2: Plan Your Migrations Setup a consolidation plan Map source Servers / Services to Target (4:1 average consolidation)
Consolidate SLP, LDAP, and replica servers Create a sequence for servers and services Certificate authority and LDAP should be first to move
Start with utility servers that have redundancy (replica, ldap, etc.)
Move smaller work group server next as a pilot
SLP DA services should be last to move
Finish with critical file and print servers
Step 2: Plan Your Migrations  (continued) End User – Changes on the Client Side Login scripts Server names likely changed if consolidating
Volume names and paths likely changed if consolidating
Export all current login scripts to text files for review
Change of Home-Dir

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Editor's Notes

  • #18 Unique nameing SDIDIAG Imanger Plugin PKI
  • #27 Bonding (Laver 2) vs. Netware Teaming (Layer 3) Be aware of spanning tree algorithms
  • #39 After about 1 hour !!
  • #51 LUM Config: - Convert lower -> Converts users to lower case for Linux box if in Edir some ore upper and some are lower - persistent search disable - user cache only if eg. Backup software does not query into edir for the owner of files - preferred servers
  • #62 /dnsnames for iPrint to convert used IP addresses of printers do dns names -> Problem after migration to OES2 the workstations still want to print to the ipp://10.10.10.10 address !! - disable quota in nss /noquota... for the migration (100MB quota on directory -> but 10GB already in there -> so you can't migrate due to the quota limit if parameter not used)