Welcome to GWAVACon

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Welcome to GWAVACon

• Protecting GroupWise
• Using SAN Technology
• Session Speakers Judy Crum, Mike Daniels
• Company The Harding Group Inc.
• Email jcrum_at_harding-group.com,
  mdaniels_at_harding-group.com

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Why GroupWise

• Secure Documented Vulnerabilities
• GroupWise 9
• Notes/Domino 72
• Exchange/Outlook 357
• Reliable 52 of users say they have not had to
  reboot their GroupWise system for more than six
  months

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GroupWise Vs. Other Email

• 87 of GroupWise users have less than 10 hours of
  downtime per year
• 66 of Exchange users experience more than 10
  hours of downtown per year
• GroupWise had 69 less unplanned downtime

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Protecting Your GroupWise System

• Companies recognize that messaging and email
  systems are as important, if not more so, than a
  dial-tone.
• Companies care about always having access to
  their applications and data.
• Data that is not available does not exist.

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The Three Rs

• Redundancy Duplication or repetition of
  elements in electronic equipment to provide
  alternative functional channels in case of
  failure.
• -Dictionary.com

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The Three Rs

• Redundant Infrastructure
• Power
• Dual Grid
• Generator
• UPS
• Environment
• Security
• Cooling
• Electrostatic Discharge
• Network
• Internet
• Pathing

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The Three Rs

• Redundant Platform
• Server
• Fault Tolerant (High Availability)
• Storage
• Dual (Active/Active) Controllers
• Multi-Path
• Hot expandable
• Hot upgradeable
• Hot patchable

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The Three Rs

• Redundant Applications
• Novell Cluster Services
• Protection against server hardware failure
• Protection against server LAN and SAN
  connectivity failure
• Novell Business Continuity Cluster
• Geographically dispersed
• FC, IP, iSCSI

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The Storage Solution
Magnitude 3D

• Storage Clustering
• Unmatched resilience
• Loosely-coupled, N way
• Dynamic simplicity
• Deployment and management
• Pay as you grow
• Single solution edge or core
• Industry leading storage TCO
• Acquisition, deployment, management
• Without the Complexity

• Magnitude 3D

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The Storage Solution

• Enterprise Storage Infrastructure
• Distributed resilience
• N-way flexibility
• Dynamic tuning
• Zero Server Footprint
• Infrastructure independence
• Seamlessly Scalable
• Performance
• Capacity
• Zero Downtime Upgrades

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Free Your Servers

• Server Hardware Upgrades
• How long does it take to backup your data before
  your server hardware upgrade?
• How long does it take to migrate your data to
  your new server hardware?

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Direct Attached Storage (DAS) Hardware Upgrade

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Storage Area Network (SAN) Hardware Upgrade

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Advantages of Booting From SAN

• Efficient Use of Time No waiting for Backup and
  Restore
• Less Hardware Conflicts The storage controller
  remains the same.
• Higher Quality Data No dependency on the quality
  of data on tape.

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Simplified DR

• Replicating Boot Partitions Simplifies DR Steps.
• Clustering Provides Many to One DR
• SAN Boot Provides Hardware Agnostic DR

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Typical GroupWise Restore

• Restore Area A location you designate to hold a
  backup copy of your Post Office so that your
  GroupWise client users can access it to retrieve
  mailbox items that are unavailable in your live
  GroupWise system.
• A restore area is only as useful as the PO data
  that is regularly backed up.

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Typical GroupWise Restore

• Use the restore utility in ConsoleOne to setup a
  restore area.
• Grant the POA R/W access to the restore area if
  located on a different server.
• Restore the PO to the restore area location.

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Typical GroupWise Restore

• Restore entire mailbox for the user requires
  user to manually delete old items
• Allow users to restore their own items from the
  GW client, by accessing the restore area
  themselves.

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New Paradigm

• Utilize 3rd party Trusted Application.
• Trusted Applications 3rd party programs that
  can log into POAs in order to access GroupWise
  mailboxes.
• Program uses the call CreateTrustedAppObject
  along with the gwtapp.h header and a gwtapp.dll

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New Paradigm

• When the trusted application is installed,
  GroupWise generates a trusted application key and
  a trusted application record which contains a
  copy of the application key.
• Each time the application runs, GroupWise
  verifies the record and the key.

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New Paradigm

• Trusted application can be managed through
  ConsoleOne.
• Ability to change Description, IP Address, IP
  Port, and Require SSL.
• IP Address Leaving blank allows access from any
  IP Address.
• Require SSL POA must be configured to use SSL.

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Demonstration

• Questions?

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Thank you

• Thank You for Coming to
• GWAVACon!