GWAVACon 2013: Novell Open Enterprise Server - Roadmap and Future

Novell® Open Enterprise ServerRoadmap and Future

Martin Weiss

Senior Architect Infrastructure

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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


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)


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.


Best Practices

Support Offerings

Free Training

See more at - OES Blog

Upgrade Resources

http://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/oes

OES 11 Support Pack 1


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


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


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



• 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



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


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


OES11SP1 - ndsgrepair


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

http://www.novell.com/documentation/kanaka/Novell_Kanaka_for_Mac_2.8_Release_Notes/data/Novell_Kanaka_for_Mac_2.8_Release_Notes.html

OES 11 Support Pack 2


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)


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


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


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


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


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)


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

OES Altair and Beyond


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


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


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


Standards Support / Keeping pace

• SMB v2 / v3

• IPv6

• SSD Optimizations in File Stack


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

OES and Novell Filr


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


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


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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