will it ?

[terry712]

a wee while ago i migrated a few servers from old san to new on. i did this by adding a new server and attach to new san and then craeted dsiks etc and then just used the consolidation wizard to move the data. then swap the fibre cards in the server and present the data back to the san.

i still have one server to do but it is a netware 6 server - has to be for an app. the server i am usaing to host the disks to copy to is a netware 6.5 sp5 - will the netware 6 server be able to handle an nss setup that was created on 6.5 ?

 

[marvhuffaker]

I can't find any evidence to support this, but I believe the answer is no. I recall something a while back, but don't know where I saw it.

Seems like the code is different enough that you could have problems.



Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[terry712]

that is my kinda gut feeling
probably quicker if i just buils a quick six server to create the disk with and run the wizard

need to see if i still have a 6 anywhere

 

[sstoppel]

If you have 6.5 you can build as many servers as you like, so why not upgrade your 6 to 6.5 then do your migration? Are you hanging on to v6.0 for some specific reason?

 

[terry712]

this is the only server we have that is not 6.5. it has to stay as a 6 for an application . the application will most likely work ok on 6.5 but would invalid the support contract for the app - so bummer but wot can you do

 

[marvhuffaker]

That's where I would be having the conversation with the vendor that goes something like this..

1) Get into this century with your apps
2) There's no reason, from a technical standpoint, why an app that works on 6.0 would not work on 6.5. The kernel is pretty much the same, the only differences are the enhanced applications that run on it.

or just do it and don't tell the vendor.

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[sstoppel]

I have found that some vendors know so little about Netware that they don't really know what they are talking about. One software vendor we use has a list of questions their frontline tech support reads from. When they hear Netware they start listing the IPX parameters I should set. I explain we are TCP/IP only, and they respond "you SAID you had a Novell server.

 

[terry712]

in fairness the vendor isnt that clued up on netware but they do have newer versions of this that run on netware but they would need conversion work for that - and the power that be dont want to spend that money on a system that works

so it is a few peolple's fault

the back end dbase is sybase 7 - i think the latest is 10.
i need 8 or above to run on netware 6.5.

so it isnt just one vendor - they are tied to another