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Novell and Xiotech have a long-standing relationship that has led
to many innovative SAN storage solution "firsts" for Novell NetWare
customers. Xiotech's Magnitude was the first SAN storage array that allowed NetWare to boot from the SAN and allowed dynamic volume expansion of NetWare volumes. Xiotech worked closely with Novell to bring high -availability solutions to NetWare, by allowing NetWare clusters to boot from the SAN, and was one of the first storage arrays to support Novell's Business Continuity Clustering solution. Xiotech actively integrates Magnitude 3D storage capabilities with Novell's Storage Services (NSS) for Linux to fully support NSS features when they are available in Open Enterprise Server.

Novell Certifications:

• Magnitude and Magnitude 3D are Novell YES CERTIFIED storage devices for NetWare 6.5 and Novell Cluster Services 1.7
• Magnitude and Magnitude 3D are YES CERTIFIED for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
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Testimonials:

• Mesaba Airlines 3 minute video
• Robert Wipfel 1 minute video

Key Business Value:

Magnitude enables Novell NetWare customers to leverage NetWare storage features and SAN technology to handle large amounts of business data, security, and availability required by today's applications such as GroupWise, Novell iFolder, and Nterprise Branch Office.

The ease of use of the Magnitude family enables customers to dynamically add, increase, and change storage volumes "on-the-fly," while increasing storage utilization to well over 80%.

The shared storage capability of the Magnitude family enables Novell Cluster Services to provide high availability to servers and applications. The clustered storage architecture of Magnitude 3D eliminates planned downtime and dramatically decreases unplanned downtime for storage.

Novell's Business Continuity Clustering combined with Magnitude 3D is the easiest solution to implement and automate for business continuity in the case of a site failure.

Booting servers directly from Magnitude enables rapid replacement and deployment of spare servers should a server fail. Easy and rapid copy and replication of virtual disks enable simple migrations and upgrades.

The Magnitude family supports most open operating systems in addition to NetWare. SUSE Linux has already been certified with multiple Magnitude configurations and solutions.