Table Of Contents - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER - CONVERSION GUIDE 12-2010 Manual

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About This Guide
1 Planning the Cluster Conversion
1.1 Supported Conversion Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.2 Supported Mixed-Node Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.3 SBD Devices Must Be Marked as Shareable for Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.4 Syntax Translation Issues for Load and Unload Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.5 Case Sensitivity Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.6 Adding a New NetWare Node to a Mixed-Node Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.7 Converting Multiple NetWare Cluster Nodes to OES 2 Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.8 Converting Nodes that Contain the eDirectory Master Replica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.9 Failing Over Service Cluster Resources on Mixed-Node Clusters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.10 Failing Over Data Cluster Resources on Mixed-Node Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.11 Managing File Systems in Mixed-Node Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.12 Using Novell iManager in Mixed-Node Clusters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.13 Using Novell Remote Manager Is Not Supported in Mixed-Node Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.14 Using ConsoleOne Is Not Supported for Mixed-Node Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.15 Using the Monitoring Function in Mixed-Node Clusters Is Not Supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2 Planning the Conversion of Cluster Resources
3 Planning the Conversion of Load and Unload Scripts
3.1 Translation of Cluster Resource Scripts for Mixed NetWare and Linux Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.2 Comparing Script Length Limits for NetWare and Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.3 Comparing Script Commands for NetWare and Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.4 Comparing Master IP Address Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.4.1 Master IP Address Resource Load Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.4.2 Master IP Address Resource Unload Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.5 Comparing NSS Pool Resource Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.5.1 NSS Pool Resource Load Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.5.2 NSS Pool Resource Unload Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.6 Comparing File Access Protocol Resource Script Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.6.1 File Access Protocol Resource Load Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.6.2 File Access Protocol Resource Unload Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.7 Customizing the Translation Syntax for Converting Load and Unload Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.8 Adding Monitoring Scripts on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4 Converting NetWare 6.5 Clusters to OES 2 Linux
4.1 Converting NetWare Cluster Nodes to OES 2 Linux (Rolling Cluster Conversion) . . . . . . . . . 27
4.2 Adding New OES 2 Linux Nodes to Your NetWare Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.3 Finalizing the Cluster Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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