Case 1; Case 2 - Novell IFOLDER 3.8 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

9.6.1 Case 1

An ISP has a portal providing users with disk space to store their data at a central location for
continuous access. The users pay for the service, so they expect the ISP to provide round-the-clock
service, because the users across the globe expect access to their data anytime. The ISP can deploy
this iFolder solution to ensure high availability and for faster access. The ISP must deploy the setup
behind a Fibre Channel SAN with 1:1 server node backup for each iFolder server. This enables the
setup to perform a faster failover if a particular node is going down for maintenance or for some
other reason.
High performance is delivered by using Fibre Channel and the failover is not noticeable. Also,
because the data store is faster, the simultaneous user data transfer is high compared to other
deployments because the main usage of this setup is to store and share data.

9.6.2 Case 2

Backup of user data is a major task for administrators, especially for organizations that work around
the clock, because the administrators do not get a window of time for backing up user data. iFolder
deployment provides an almost real-time backup solution, where the user data is backed up and the
delta is synchronized with a latency of five minutes. At any given point, if a failure occurs, the user
data is available with a risk of losing only the last five minutes of data.
Using this deployment, you can formulate a backup strategy where the administrator doesn't need to
find time to perform a backup, and can recover data in real time. This deployment employs Novell
Cluster Services and a high speed SAN with a Fibre Channel controller to provide good response
time for the data that is synchronized.
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