Novell Filr 1.1 Planning and Deployment Best Practices Guide
Novell Filr 1.1 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 Notices