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To: Steve Fancy who wrote (20887)	3/9/1998 11:45:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

About Wolf Mountain (old name)... Wolf Mountain from Novell was a technology demonstration of multi-node clustering of NetWare servers. Wolf Mountain (which co-incidently has a similar name to its competing technolog of Microsoft's WolfPack) was never itself going to be a released technology. It will be part of NetWare 5 but from what I understand it will not be part of the initial release. The product name is now called Orion. The big feature of Orion is that it connect and load-balance as many as 16 nodes (not confirmed on the exact number of nodes). Wolfpack could only connect 2 nodes and -if I'm not mistaken - the second node can only participate in a fault tolerent mode (i.e. the two nodes don't share the processing load). If this has now been improved in Wolfpack, please correct me. I will be honest with you though, I have worked in several Novell enviornments (both small and very large) and I have yet to see a need for Clustering. Worst case are NetWare servers providing database serving and this can be addressed by SMP. With NetWare 5 and JAVA - large application load sharing will now be a requirement and the need for the Orion clustering and the capabilities seem to be coming on the scene at the same time - and right time. So is it a dead product - Not at all. I believe Orion will debut late late in 1998. Will there be a heavy use of Orion - I have my doubts, but, the technology must be there to keep up with the Jones even if there is very little need for it. (Just my humble thoughts) Toysoldier