8.0 Coexistence and Migration Issues

One of the top priorities in designing Novell®Open Enterprise Server (OES) was to ensure that new OES components, running on either NetWare® or Linux, can be introduced into an existing network environment without disrupting any of the products and services that are in place. It was also considered important that there be a clear migration path for moving existing products or services and related data on the OES platform.

This section discusses the issues involved in the coexistence and migration of the DNS server in OES. It is divided into the following topics: