Overview of Working with Partitions

NDS Manager allows you to manage partitions in your Directory tree. You can manage the placement of partition boundaries in your Directory tree and you can view partition data.

There are some general guidelines to follow when performing partition operations:

• Make sure your Directory tree is synchronizing correctly before you move a partition.

  You should check a partition's synchronization status before performing any operations. If you have synchronization errors, fix the synchronization errors before proceeding with the operation.

• If possible, always perform partition operations with the latest version of DS.NLM.
• After performing a partition operation, you need to wait for processes throughout the Directory to complete before you can perform an operation with that partition again.

  Even though a partition operation may appear completed in NDS Manager, NDS requires time to synchronize any changes to a partition with the replicas of the partition.

  Many partition operations may take considerable time to fully synchronize across the network. While you can expect partition operations to complete within a few hours, the amount of time required for NDS to synchronize the changes in the Directory depends on:

  • The number of objects in the partition
  • The number of replicas that must be synchronized
  • The location of the replicas (they could be on a server across a WAN, for example)
  • The visibility of servers involved
  • Existing wire traffic