Novell Doc: How Filr Works–Overview Guide - Integrating Filr Inside Your Network Infrastructure

2.5 Integrating Filr Inside Your Network Infrastructure

The following examples illustrate two possibilities out of many potential network configurations for deploying Filr.

2.5.1 A Small Filr Deployment

Figure 2-7 illustrates a high-level view of how an all-in-one appliance might be integrated into a small organization’s network. Each letter is explained in the table that follows the figure.

Figure 2-7 Example of a Small Filr Deployment

Letter	Details
	Filr brings Novell file services to personal devices, Macintosh and Windows workstations, and Web browsers.
	Filr is built for fitting in with your security infrastructure and can be deployed in a DMZ network, allowing your organization’s data to remain safely inside your internal network.
	Filr provides full NCP protocol support. Users have access to files stored on both NetWare and Open Enterprise Server file servers.
	Filr provides full CIFS protocol support to servers providing CIFS file services, such as Windows file servers.

2.5.2 A Large Filr Deployment

Figure 2-8 Example of a Large Filr Deployment

Letter	Details
	Filr brings Novell file services to personal devices, Macintosh and Windows workstations, and Web browsers.
	You can use L4 switches to provide load balancing of REST requests to your Filr appliances. Although not shown, you can, of course, also use Apache for this.
	You can deploy Filr appliances inside a front-end DMZ and configure multiple Filr VAs to share NFS-based storage, thus providing scalability and high availability.
	Although not available in the first release, a future release could include a monitoring appliance that leverages Ganglia and Nagios monitoring and statistics.
	You can deploy multiple search appliances in a back-end DMZ, each of which maintains indexes of Filr data to provide scalable response times to search and other requests coming through the Filr appliances.
	Your organization’s MySQL servers can be deployed in the back-end DMZ and configured to access the same database.
	As with small deployments, this configuration provides NCP file services.
	CIFS file services are also provided.