Subj : Re: Novell 4.11 to 5.1 migration
To   : Darren Gibbs
From : Jim Wargula
Date : Thu Oct 26 2000 12:07 pm

-> You might indeedie assume this. In fact, if you've only got one server, and 
few
-> enough clients that you can upgrade them all in your cutover period, you can
-> remove the IPX bindings immediately

We have several Novell servers, and they would be migrated relatively
quickly during a time period.  Wehn all were converted, the plug would
be pulled on IPX.

-> Since the system volume {SYS:} cannot be NNS anyway, the existing Netware
-> options of mirroring and duplexing work perfectly. So you've got no worries 
on
-> this score. You can put an NSS volume on your RAID 5 array for data, and 
find
-> your server booting light lightning. I did a test server once - 70 gig of 
data
-> volume - under "traditional" filesystems type it took almost 45 minutes to
-> mount the volume when it was near full. Under NSS, it took about 45 seconds.

Now if I can find server hardware that supports a mirrored (and possibly
duplexed but not absolutely necessary) system for SYS vol and a hardware
raid 5 system for several drives to make up a data volume!
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