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No data is actually copied during the modeling phase, so you are free to rearrange the data structure until you are satisfied with it.
When you are ready to proceed with the data copy, the Server Consolidation Utility performs a precopy verification of the project. This helps prevent errors from interrupting your server consolidation and allows you to correct mistakes before data is copied to the destination servers.
Server Consolidation Scenarios
The benefits the Novell Server Consolidation Utility provides can be better understood through examining two consolidation scenarios.
Basic Server Consolidation: Many-to-One
In the first scenario, suppose you have three existing NetWare servers. You recently purchased a multiprocessor server that you want to install NetWare 6.5/Open Enterprise Server on to take advantage of NetWare’s multiprocessor-enabled features. You want to copy the data from each of the three servers to the single NetWare 6.5 server. Rather than manually moving all the data and
Printer Agents, or backing up the data on each of the three servers and then restoring it to the
NetWare 6.5 server, you can use the Server Consolidation Utility to automate the process.
The following figure shows how this consolidation scenario might look.
Figure 1 Many-to-One Server Consolidation
eDirectory Tree
Server 1 Server 2 Server 3 MP Server
Data
Volumes
Data Migration
Although Figure 1 shows the servers all in the same eDirectory tree, the Server Consolidation
Utility lets you do tree-to-tree consolidations as well.
Consolidating Data from Multiple Servers onto a Two-Node Cluster
In the second scenario, suppose you have five existing NetWare servers. You recently purchased two multiprocessor servers and the necessary hardware to create a two-node cluster complete with an attached Storage Area Network (SAN). You have decided to install NetWare 6.5 on the twonode cluster because NetWare 6.5 comes with Novell Cluster Services TM software and a two-node cluster license. You want to copy the data from each of the five servers to the SAN on the two-node cluster. Rather than manually moving all the data and Printer Agents or backing up the data and restoring it to the SAN, you can use the Novell Server Consolidation Utility, which automates the data migration process.
Server Consolidation Overview
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