Novell Filr 2.0 Planning and Deployment Best Practices Guide

  Novell Filr 2.0 Planning and Deployment Best Practices Guide
    Small or Large, Expandable Deployment?
    Deploying Filr as a Single Appliance
    Planning a Large, Expandable (Clustered) Deployment
      Planning Overview
      Involving the Stakeholders
      Using a Planning Worksheet
      Assessing Your Organization’s Needs
      Planning Filr Users and Groups
      Planning File and Folder Targets for Filr
      Planning for Content Searching (Content Indexing)
      Planning for Filr Email Integration
      Planning for File Sharing through Filr
      Planning for Net Folder Synchronization
      Planning Administration Access
      Planning Network Support
      Planning the Virtual Machines and VM Host Servers
      Planning Filr Deployment Components
      Implementing Your Plan
    Setting Up a Large, Expandable (Clustered) Deployment
      Overview
      Prerequisites
      Setting Up NFS Shared Storage
      Setting Up Two Filr Search Appliances
      Setting Up the MySQL Appliance
      Setting Up the Filr Appliances
      Creating the Filr Cluster
      Completing the Cluster Setup
      What’s Next
    Tuning Filr for Performance, Scale, and Capacity
      Ensure That Hardware Recommendations Are Met or Exceeded
      Ensure Optimal Network and Disk Bandwidth for /vashare
      Use Hardware-based SSL Termination
      Deploy At Least Two Filr Appliances
      Dedicate a Filr Appliance to Synchronization
      Understand Your User Activity Workload
      Understand How Data and Synchronization Affect Performance
      Bring Net Folder and Home Directory Users Online in Phases
      Rely on Ganglia for Help with Optimizing RAM and CPU Allocation
    Documentation Updates
    Legal Notice