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Rubrik: World-wide News/Products & News PowerQuest
"ServerMagic 6.5 for NetWare" Gives IT Managers NetWare
Administration Tools Solution
Minimizes Downtime And Delivers NetWare Server Reconfiguration, Backup And
Disaster Recovery (21.12.03)
- PowerQuest Corporation, a global provider of deployment and recovery
solutions, announces "ServerMagic 6.5" for NetWare, the latest
version of its solution providing NetWare server reconfiguration, upgrades,
deployment, backup and disaster recovery. ServerMagic 6.5 for NetWare
simplifies server upgrades and manages growing storage needs by easily
creating, deleting, moving, copying, resizing, imaging and merging NetWare
volume segments across hardware configurations. ServerMagic 6.5 for NetWare
also converts existing traditional volumes into flexible and robust NSS pools
and ensures NetWare servers are protected against disasters by generating
backups of system and data volumes.
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"ServerMagic
6.5 for NetWare is a reliable and essential solution for NetWare
administrators to manage many aspects of their storage environment,"
says Katie Richert, owner of KLR Consulting and a ServerMagic 6.5 beta
tester. "The product allows us to leverage the power and functionality
of NetWare as well as perform tasks in a fraction of the time it would take
to manually perform them." Rather
than going through a server reconfiguration process that can typically take
several hours or days to manually back up, reconfigure the volumes and then
restore the data back to the server, IT administrators can now use
ServerMagic 6.5 for NetWare to resize volumes without losing data. In
addition, administrators can ensure their servers are consistent as well as
protected by capturing an image of the volumes and pools on the system and
deploying or recovering systems and data in minutes. ServerMagic 6.5 for
NetWare can also minimize system downtime and reduce the overall cost of
network ownership by performing a bare metal restore in minutes using the
bootable CD Recovery Environment. Based on
PowerQuest's Virtual Volume Imaging (V2i) technology, ServerMagic 6.5 for
NetWare adds time-saving, essential functionality to NetWare when performing
server reconfiguration, deployments, upgrades and system recovery.
Administrators looking to upgrade NetWare may find themselves having to
resize partitions in order to accommodate new boot partition requirements.
ServerMagic 6.5 for NetWare eliminates many of the steps administrators go
through to undergo an upgrade which can involve backing up the server,
deleting all the data, partitions and volumes, installing the new NetWare
software as well as configuring partitions/volumes and finally restoring the
data. Administrators can simply use ServerMagic 6.5 for NetWare to convert
traditional NetWare volumes to NSS pools without using free space. This
process also ensures that existing NetWare information and NDS objects are
leveraged and converted to the newer NetWare version. ServerMagic 6.5 for NetWare delivers the following additional
functionality:
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Ability to reconfigure and manage NSS pools, including functionality
to expand and shrink NSS volumes in place and manage the volume quota. Users
can also create, rename and delete NSS volumes and pools. This functionality
helps the IT administrator manage growing storage needs.
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Conversion from existing traditional volumes to NSS pools provides a
simple method to leverage powerful NetWare volume management capabilities.
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Ability to mirror partitions, merge traditional volume segments and
resize volumes and NSS pools gives flexibility in administration of storage
resources.
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The ServerMagic Drive Map allows NetWare administrators to easily see
partitions, volumes and pools in their physical locations on the serverıs
disks.
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Support for NetWare 3.x through NetWare 6.5. (NetWare 3.x to 5.1
support is provided by ServerMagic 4.0 for NetWare, which is included with
the product).
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Ability to dismount and image specific NSS storage volumes and pools
while keeping other NSS pools online. Administrators can also copy and move
NSS volumes between storage devices and verify the integrity of NSS volumes.
(ma) PowerQuest
Corporation Kontakt:
Wiebke Lips, International PR Manager - EMEA Tel.
(001-801) 437-8961, Fax (001-801) 437-4061 E-Mail:
wiebke.lips@powerquest.com Web: www.powerquest.com |
