8.5 Cross-Platform Issues for Management Tools

8.5.1 Storage-Related Plug-Ins for Novell iManager 2.7

The following storage-related plug-ins for OES 2 and later require Novell iManager 2.7 (or later):

Storage-Related Plug-In

NSS on Linux

NSS on NetWare

Archive and Versioning (Archive and Version Services)

Yes

Yes

Clustering (Novell Cluster Services)

Yes

Yes

Distributed File Services (Novell Distributed File Services)

Yes

Yes

Novell AFP

Yes

(OES 2 SP1 and later)

Yes

Novell CIFS

Yes

(OES 2 SP1 and later)

Yes

Novell NFS

No

Yes

Files and Folders

Yes

Yes

Storage (NSS file system)

Yes

Yes

For more information about storage-related plug-ins, see Section 10.1.1, Understanding Storage-Related Plug-Ins.

8.5.2 Interoperability of Protocols for the iManager Server and Target Server

Table 10-3 in Protocols for iManager Communications provides information about the protocols needed to use iManager to manage storage in a heterogeneous environment.

8.5.3 Management Capabilities for Software RAIDs

NSSMU supports creating nested RAID 0+1 and 5+1 devices.