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To: Salah Mohamed who wrote (7166)	1/21/1997 6:02:00 AM
From: Adrian Slade	of 42771

Hello Salah, Clustering, well it's part of the published product roadmap for MOAB and due for release this year. You can see it demonstrated this spring at Brainshare 97, and there will be some features which will really amaze everyone! I guess when you talk about NT clustering you are talking wolfpack, wolfpack 2 to be precise, as wolfpack 1 is a poor attempt at SFT3. With wolfpack 1 two servers share the same disk-array. Wolfpack 2 is an MS and other partners' proprietary clustering solution (Tandem?). It is not an off the shelf solution and you are tied into h/w purchases. Novell has had a solution superior to wolfpack 1 for many years - SFTIII which has load balancing since v3.11 days, you will note the MS article said load balancing for NT is due next year 1998 (it's always next year) Load balancing in effect doubles up your disk/lan channel capacity by using those spare I/O channels instead of leaving them redundant until failure of primary channel. Two disk channels to the (pairs or arrays) mirrored disks and two lan channels to the outside world. This is made possible by the the high speed FDDI link between the two physical servers. Did you guys all miss the Press release: Novell Endorses NetFRAME cluster software - NetFRAME ClusterData ?? This was released on 15 Dec 1997 It uses NDS to enable you to build high performance/reliability networks by clustering multiple IntranetWare servers, without the need for stand by disk/server as in wolfpack 1 and SFTIII. This is the first Genuine Clustering solution available for IntranetWare, NT at present DOES NOT HAVE ONE. Of course as the article also points out in the Unix environment clustering has been available for some time, but to compare NT clustering solutions to those of the Unix world... more of that FUD Our Clustering solution due later this year will not be tied to any H/W manufacturer and will be part of IntranetWare. ADE.

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