HP 3000 Manuals

COMMUNICATOR 3000 MPE MPE/iX RELEASE 4.5

NetWare/iX for the HP 3000 Performance Enhancements 

by Cliff Chew and Bill Lund 
Information Networks Division 

NetWare/iX for the HP 3000 provides PC services functionality from Novell
Inc.  From a Novell NetWare client, the NetWare Services running on the
HP 3000 Series 900 will look identical to those running on a Novell
NetWare 386 server.  The services available with NetWare/iX for the HP
3000 include:

   *   file and printer sharing

   *   server administration functions

   *   connection maintenance

   *   bindery facility

   *   print queue management

   *   accounting services

Novell developed NetWare for Unix as a source code product that provides
native NetWare compatible distributed services to networks of PCs and
workstations when integrated into a host operating system.  NetWare for
Unix is part of the Novell plan to serve the needs of their customers and
to gain wider acceptance in the distributed services vendor community.

With this release, HP has significantly improved the performance of
NetWare/iX on HP 3000 Series 900 systems.  The goal is to provide NetWare
server capabilities on the HP 3000 for customers who currently have
native NetWare PC clients and servers, and HP 3000 Series 900 systems
running MPE/iX and who want NetWare services on the HP 3000.  With
NetWare/iX for the HP 3000, NetWare clients can use NetWare capabilities
on the HP 3000 as well as on native NetWare servers.  Under loaded
conditions NetWare/iX can out perform a native 386/486 server depending
on the specific client usage.  The greatest performance gains are seen in
file reading and writing, such as occur during program loading or
accessing data files on the server.

NetWare/iX for the HP 3000 is a fully certified implementation of
Portable NetWare 3.01.  NetWare/iX for the HP`3000 appears to a PC client
as "normal, well behaved" NetWare.  All file-oriented NetWare Core
Protocols (NCPs) are fully supported in NetWare/iX for the HP 3000.  This
includes file maintenance, print services and queuing, service connection
maintenance, bindery facility, and accounting services.  The figure on
the following page depicts a simple configuration that includes an HP
3000 Series 900 running NetWare/iX for the HP 3000 and three HP Vectras
running NetWare client code.  All four devices are connected by one LAN
segment.


            

You will notice that there are no native NetWare servers in this
environment.  NetWare/iX for the HP 3000 does not require another NetWare
286 or 386 server.  Customers are not required to buy a NetWare client
kit.  NetWare/iX for the HP 3000 product supplies the NetWare 3.01 client
set, which includes floppies and manuals.

NetWare/iX for the HP 3000 product is supported over Ethernet v2.0,
802.3, and 802.5 (Token Ring) LANs only.  The ThinLAN 3000/XL Link (HP
36923A) is a prerequisite product for NetWare/iX for the HP 3000.  The
link must be configured (link name and link path) and started.  The NS
transport is not required to be configured and started.  For those
systems that can support one LAN card for both DTC and system traffic
(currently HP 3000 Series 9x7 and below), the ThinLAN 3000/XL Link
product is still required because of software dependencies.

Features not supported by NetWare/iX for the HP 3000 are:

   *   The Novell Terminal Services.

   *   Embedded value-added processes or embedded service protocol
       gateways.

   *   NetWare loadable modules.

   *   NetWare driver-level diagnostics for network management.  (ThinLAN
       3000/XL Link provides link-level and link-access diagnostics.)


NOTE  Virtual Terminal services (VT) is available for NetWare PC clients
      with the HP Network Services 2.1/MS-DOS for NetWare (HP D1819A)
      product.  This product provides network services over a TCP/IP
      stack for the NetWare PC client.  HP Network Services 2.1/MS-DOS
      for NetWare is not included with the NetWare/iX for the HP 3000
      product and must be purchased separately.

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