User Guide

Partitioning and Replicating Novell eDirectory 79
ConsoleOne User Guide
104-001316-001
August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
7 Partitioning and Replicating Novell
eDirectory
A partition is a subdivision of your Novell
®
eDirectory
TM
tree that can be
stored and replicated as an independent unit across multiple servers. If your
tree is large or spans WAN links, you can partition and replicate it to improve
network performance and fault tolerance. For details, see Novell eDirectory
Administration Guide > Replicas and Partitions.
To perform partition and replication operations, you need the Supervisor right
to the part of the eDirectory tree that you will partition or replicate. In your
tree, the containers that have an icon next to them mark the points where
the tree is partitioned. (Each of these containers is the root of a partition.) At
such points, you can open a special view in the right pane (illustrated below)
to see and configure the replicas of the partition. You can also access similar
views from server objects in the tree.
Figure 3 Partition and Replica View