Uprade a DL385 G1 to OES11 ?

Hi all: I know from a previous post that it is possible (albeit not straight forward) to do a clean install of OES11 on an HP DL385 G1 server even though it is officially not supported by HP. But how about an upgrade of OES2 to OES11? Has anyone performed an upgrade of a DL385 G1 successfully?

Originally Posted by Chris
Can you elaborate on the steps you took? Which drivers / smartstart CD you used? etc.
>>> kjhurni<[email protected]> 5/23/2013 10:56 AM >>>
Chris;2264789 Wrote:
> Hi all: I know from a previous post that it is possible (albeit not
> straight forward) to do a clean install of OES11 on an HP DL385 G1
> server even though it is officially not supported by HP. But how about
> an upgrade of OES2 to OES11? Has anyone performed an upgrade of a DL385
> G1 successfully?
We've installed OES11 (not SP1) on a DL385 G1 without problem, so I
don't see any reason why OES11 SP1 wouldn't work.
The opinions expressed are my own.
Check out my OES2 Guides:
Installing OES2 SP2:
OES2 SP2 Installation Guide | Novell User Communities
Upgrading to OES2 with ID Transfer:
OES2 SP2 Migration Guide for Transfer ID Scenarios | Novell User Communities
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My co-worker actually does all the HP stuff, but he's out until Tuesday. I'll see if he remembers.
We're replacing all our servers with G6/G7 models now, because of hardware supports reasons. Further, we're putting everything into VMware now as well because there's a very good chance we may need to either also install Windows servers in our regions or migrate to Windows in a few years.
Although that brings up a whole host of other issues (HP integration with VMware for monitoring, etc.) and then we have to rely upon NAGIOS to monitor the OES Guest stuff for disk space usage, etc.

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On 29/10/2013 14:46, MarkHofland wrote:
> A couple of months ago we installed an OES11 SP1 server with an NSS
> volume (VOL1:) for all our installation files.
> In the root of the VOL1: volume, we created a directory named _Install
> (yes, underscore)
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>
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>
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Originally Posted by konecnya
In article <[email protected]>, Kjhurni wrote:
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>>> On 9/5/14 at 12:56, in message
<[email protected]>,
magic31<[email protected]> wrote:
> HI Niel,
>
> xyzl;2318555 Wrote: >
>> The new installation will run on a Proliant ML350 G6 with P410i>
> controller
>> so we can use the raid capability to create two different logical drives>
> as
>> suggested.
>
> As you will be using ESXi 5.5 as host OS, it's not needed to split
> thehost server storage into two logical drives... unless that's what
> youwant in perspective for "general performance" or redundancy reasons.
> Italso depends on the options that P410i controller has.
>
> On a side note, I'm not too familiar with the P410i controller... domake
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>
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>
>
> xyzl;2318555 Wrote: > Do you have any suggestions for the disk space that
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>>
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>
forums):https://forums.novell.com/showthread...rtitioning-%28
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route, plus from our experience with Migrating from NW6.5 to these
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On 8/3/2012 5:30 AM, Martin Farrer wrote:
> Slight problem encountered at a client. Upgraded the NSM engine server
> from OES2SP3 to OES11: the 3.0.3 engine carried on working fine. And I
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>
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the ISO image, and you should have no trouble.
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Tomcat running high utilization on OES11 SP2

I have Groupwise 2014 with webaccess and calendar publishing host installed on the same OES 11 SP2 in virtual environment. Tomcat is slowly eating up available CPUs until the system becomes unstable. Rcnovell-tomcat6 restart will temporarily clear the problem. The problem is described in TID 7010072 however, the document specifically says that the fix is not for OES11. Does anyone know how to address this on OES11?

Originally Posted by smflood
On 08/07/2014 20:46, bobodajdaj wrote:
> I have Groupwise 2014 with webaccess and calendar publishing host
> installed on the same OES 11 SP2 in virtual environment. Tomcat is
> slowly eating up available CPUs until the system becomes unstable.
> Rcnovell-tomcat6 restart will temporarily clear the problem. The problem
> is described in TID 7010072 however, the document specifically says that
> the fix is not for OES11. Does anyone know how to address this on OES11?
Firstly I'm not aware of an equivalent TID specific to OES11 so I'll ask
my Novell contacts.
OES11 uses novell-tomcat6 rather than tomcat6 as used with SLES11 with
configuration file at /etc/opt/novell/tomcat6/conf/novell-tomcat6.conf
so in the meantime perhaps make the same change as noted in TID 7010072
for SLES11 to the OES11 file.
Note there is more than one line (re)defining CATALINA_OPTS so I'd be
tempted to add the following line below the last CATALINA_OPTS line:
CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Xthr:minimizeUserCPU -Xms800m -Xmx900m"
Restart the OES11 tomcat process via "rcnovell-tomcat6 restart".
HTH.
Simon
Novell Knowledge Partner
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We are experiencing the same issue on our OES GroupWise 2014 server. Restarting novell-tomcat6 fixes temporarily, but always returns. Anyone find anything further with this? Just downloaded (1/12/15) and installed latest available hotpatches for GW2014 and SLES/OES, but did not resolve issue.

Best plan for this scenario (migrate oes2 to oes11)

Hi there!
I would like to ask you guys the best plan for migrate a few servers that I have
in oes2 to oes11.
I have four servers in oes2sp2/sp3, these servers have a few NSS
volumes over NCS. Also I have my iPrint service on two machines,
also using NCS. I have one cluster between two machines and
other cluster between the other two machines. For exmaple,
machine1 and machine2, three NSS volumes (every NSS volume is a cluster
resource) and other resource in the same cluster for iPrint. Cluster: CL1
machine3 and machine4, one NSS volume (for other people in the company)
in other cluster. Cluster: CL2. In this cluster only have a NSS volume/resource.
Machine1/3 are physical, machine2/4 are virtual (vmware)
My CA is in other server that I will migrate after a while. So, It seems that there is
no problem with the certificate. Machine1 and machine3 are a replica for the eDir in
my organization.
My plan: I have deployed two virtual machines and one physical with oes11sp1 and sles11sp2.
I think that the best plan is migrate with migration tool iPrint first, like a cluster resource,
and NSS volumes, and after that, make a transfer ID (like a different project)
For machine1/3, move NSS volumes and after, make a transfer ID.
Is this correct? I dont know If I have to delete the current clusters (cl1 and cl2) and
create new ones, after that, create every resource as It was on the old ones.
thank you so much !
Antonio.

Originally Posted by kjhurni
This is just my opinion, of course, but:
If you don't want to have to migrate your NSS data and keep the same server names/IP/s and cluster load scripts, then I believe a Rolling Cluster Upgrade is a good way to go.
If you look in my signature, there's a link to my OES2 guides. Somewhere there is one that I did for our Rolling Cluster Upgrade.
If all you have is NSS and iPrint, then you only need to use the miggui (migration utility) for iPrint--or so I think (I do have to followup on this one as I vaguely recall I asked this a while back and there may have been a way to do this without migrating stuff again).
But your NSS data will simply "re-mount" on the OES11 nodes and you'll be fine (so that's why I like the rolling cluster upgrades).
Let me double-check on the OES2 -> OES11 cluster option with iPrint.
--Kevin
Thank you Kevin for your answer.
Finally, I think Im going to proceed using transfer ID on my servers that Im only using NSS over NCS (I only have two machines with one NSS volume)
because it seems that its a good option. I would like to keep old IPs from all the servers, cluster and resources if possible. So, testing this
migration on my test environment it seems that it works fine:
- I use miggui for transfer id between all the machines: physical -> physical and virtual -> virtual. eDirectory assumes new hostname, IP, etc.
the only task "out of the box" is that I have to delete the cluster and regenerate (reconfigure NCS on the new servers) but its pretty easy. This way
I have the two old ips from the older machines and all the ips from the cluster and the cluster resources also. I think that its the best plan.
For the other two machines that has 4 nss volumes and iPrint I must think about a plan. But with those, Im going to proceed this way. I hope
I have chosen a good plan!
thank you so much all for your answers / advices

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