1. Novell® Filr
Get Your Novell Filr Pilot Up in 30 Minutes
Richard Lindstedt
Sr. Product Manager
Anthony Priestman
Sr. Solution Architect

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Pilot / Small Deployment
App Server
(Tomcat)
Database
(MySQL)
Search
(Lucene)
DSK1 – OS
DSK2 – conf, PS,
DB, Search
All Filr services can be
run in a single VM
*Note: XEN, Hyper-V coming in v1.01, Mid-Sept 2013

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Typical Deployment
App Server
(Tomcat)
Database
(MySQL)
Search
(Lucene)
Each Novell Filr service
running in a separate VM
*Note: XEN, Hyper-V coming in v1.01, Mid-Sept 2013

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Large Deployment Example
Search VA
MySQL
VA: App Svr
VA: App Svr
VA: App Svr
VA: App Svr
Secure LDAP
Search VA
Internal Firewall Internal FirewallExternal Firewall
DMZ NetworkDMZ Network
L4
L4
Port:
443
Filr.acme.com

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Deploy for Success
3 Dimensions to Properly Size, Scale and Deploy:
How Much Storage Do I Need?
• What are the appliance storage requirements?
How Much Data Can I Make Available?
• Just how large can I make those Net Folders?
• How many Net Folders can I have?
• What about remote branch office data?
How Many Users Can I Support?
• How many appliances do I need?
• Will I need to Cluster?

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Filr v1 - Storage Requirements
Considerations:
• Filr Virtual Appliance
– 2nd Disk (/vastorage), required for upgrades.
– Shared Storage (/vashare, NFS, Clustering)
– Personal Storage, Rendered files (temporary)
• Search Virtual Appliance (SVA)
– 2nd Disk, /vastorage, no NFS
– Recommend 2 SVA, Fault Tolerance, not load balanced
• Data Base Virtual Appliance
– Novell provides a MySQL Virtual Appliance, no FT, no LB
– 2nd Disk, /vastorage, support for NFS
– Recommend using in-house MySQL for HA, and FT

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Insight into “/vashare”, “/vastorage”
NFS mount point
• /vashare, mounted by all
nodes in the cluster
2nd Disk
• Each node in the cluster requires a
2nd disk, /vastorage

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Filr v1 - Storage Requirements
How much storage do I need to setup Filr?
• Filr VA (2nd Disk or NFS mount)
– Personal Storage
– # of users * quota size
– File Rendering (viewing)
• Search VA (2nd Disk)
– Index Enabled (word based search) approx. 11KB per file
– Index Disabled (no word based searching) 5KB per file
• DB VA (2nd Disk)
– 10KB per user
– 30KB per file: Index Enabled
– 20KB per file: Index Disabled

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Filr v1 - Storage Requirements
Refer to Latest Novell Documentation Updates
– Installation and Configuration – Filr System
Requirements – Section 1.3.2: Filr Storage
Requirements.

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Note Worthy
Viewing Files using any of the following methods will cause temporary
Filr VA storage (/vastorage or /vashare) growth:
– View HTML – in WebAccess
– View Details – in WebAccess
– Generate Preview – in Filr Mobile app
The storage growth will be at least equal to the size of the files being
rendered (./cachefilestore)
– Auto-cleanup after 10Gb threshold, else requires manual
clean-up.
File Rendering – Impact to Storage Growth:

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Filr v1 - How Much Data?
Quick Recap and Level Set
– What is a Net Folder?
Novell Super Lab Results
Test Environment: SuperLab
Giga-bit connection to OES & Windows Storage
Large Filr Deployment: 2CPU, 8G Ram, 4G Heap
1st Pass Sync time ~ 730 files per minute
2nd & 3rd Pass Sync time ~ 2,300 files per minute
Observations:
• In General, First File Sync takes more time
• File Size does not impact the File sync time.
Net Folder sizing capacity in the works

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Filr v1 – Data Considerations
To Index or Not?
• Searching by Filename
– Indexing not required on the Net Folder
• Word-based search
– Indexing is required
Does the Data change Frequently?
• Net Folder Sync Intervals
– Once a day vs once a week for static data
• Just In-Time Sync
– Provides that “realtime” experience
– Good for Data sets that change frequently
– Combine with NF sync schedules

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Filr v1 - How Many Users
Considerations:
• Active Simultaneous Connections
– Understand how many users will perform some kind of file
activity at the same time
– File Downloads, Desktop File Sync, Rendering Actions, JITS
Guidance:
 2000 Active Simultaneous connections will require: 4 Clustered Filr
VA’s, 2 Search VA’s, 1 DB VA or equivalent
 QA in process to certify 10-node Filr VA cluster.
• Clustering must be used to Scale Filr Horizontally
– QA has thoroughly tested 500 active simultaneous
connections per Filr VA successfully.
– Filr can support thousands of users in the system
 We have one customer with over 30k users provisioned

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Watch Out For …
• Desktop Client Related Gotcha’s
– Re-Indexing: may cause files to re-download to desktop.
– Following documented re-index procedures can avoid this condition
– Renaming local files that have been shared will cause shares
to be deleted.
• Worth Noting:
– Team is looking into “FIPS Inside” logo.

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