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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe R. Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Netware for VMS
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.185229.48189@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 91 18:52:29 MDT
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Organization: Utah State University
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In article <229@gordon.UUCP>, jpd@gordon.UUCP (Jim Drummey) writes:
> 
> We are looking into purchasing Netware for VMS and are looking  for
> comments, flames, etc from experienced users. In addition to the product,
> we'd like to hear any comments on the support offered by Novell and its
> reliability. Thanks in advance.
> 
> ============================================================
> Jim Drummey
> Access Technology, Inc.
> Natick, MA                           harvard!necntc!gordon!jpd
> 
> ===========================================================
Jim,
	I can help a little. We run two copies of NW/VMS here at Utah State
Univ., one on the main 6510 VAX and another on my MicroVAX. Each looks like
a NW 2.10 file server to users. Both are very much (5-10X) slower than a
NW 386 system. One nice feature of NW/VMS is the bundling of TES, an Int 14h
hooker for terminal emulator connections straight to the frontend of VMS.
TES is popular here.
	File visibility. Yes, files can be seen from both VMS and NW
perspectives, with some footwork by the VMS system manager. Binaries do not
transport across this boundary even if they are visible. No Mac support,
no VAPs, no NLMs, and no nice cache memory (a VMS artifact).
	CPU consumption. Not much really. My MicroVAX spends about 30 min
cpu time per day on routing traffic and the per connection loading seems
light.
	General maintainance by Novell. Alas, NW/VMS is placed on a low rung
of the development ladder at Novell. Problems in the field: only one here -
the extra router, NWRTR, caused a "killer bee" attack on a NW 386 server
(sending packets at the poor thing rapid fire without ceasing), for reasons
unknown. Almost melted the coax until I deleted that program. Otherwise all
is well.
	Joe D.