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Video Tutorial: Windows Data Migration Made Easy with Virtualization
Klavs Landberg, Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), AutoVirt, Inc. – A visionary software architect and innovator, Klavs Landberg has enjoyed over 30 years of successful engineering and product development experience, with particular expertise in networking, operating, file systems, and data storage.
Your questions, answered
Posted by Amelia on Mon, Nov 02, 2009 @ 09:32 AM
Unfortunately we were not able to answer all of the asked in last week's webinar, “AutoVirt 3.0 For Unstructured Data Management”. Thanks to everyone who attended, and here are responses to a few of your inquiries:
Q: Can you explain a bit more on what you mean by adding objects to the DNS config? Perhaps an example?
The AutoVirt global namespace is made up of individual namespaces. The root of each of these namespaces is found by client computers via the DNS entries (a.k.a "objects") that the AutoVirt software creates to describe them. DNS entries are also used to create the highly available namespace service created by individual namespace servers working together. After accessing a namespace and receiving the referral information, clients go back to DNS to locate the filers, again using DNS entries created by AutoVirt.
Q: If your AutoVirt servers become unavailable, does that mean users will not be able to access file shares?
AutoVirt is built for high availability. Two dedicated servers (called ‘nodes’) each host the global namespace, policy engine, and data engine. These servers are identical. Should the primary node become unavailable, users would be immediately redirected to access their data through the other node. There is no magic, however: if both servers become unavailable, clients will not be able to access shares.
Thanks for your thoughts, and keep ‘em coming. We hope you’ll view the recorded webinar and contact us with further inquiries!
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