Product Info:

Evaluate Portlock Storage Manager

System requirements

Features and Benefits

Installing Portlock Storage Manager

Supplemental downloads

Portlock Knowledge Base

The Portlock Boot CD freezes at boot-up on VMware ESX Server

Portlock Image Scripting PDF (1.45 MB)

Online imaging

How to mount a CD-ROM on NetWare 4.x

Renewal program

Frequently asked questions

History (txt file)

Readme (txt file)

Release dates

Novell Developer success story

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Storage Manager PDFs:

User's Guide

Using Portlock License Manager to receive Portlock Storage Manager images

Physical-to-virtual server migration (VMware)

Server-to-server migration via TCP/IP

Configuring the Windows XP Pro FTP server

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Portlock Products:

Portlock Boot CD for NetWare

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Portlock License Manager

Portlock SMART Suite

Portlock Storage Manager

Portlock Windows Update Manager

Evaluate Portlock Storage Manager

These downloads are evaluation versions of our products. The image command is not limited in size, but the restore command is limited to one gigabyte. We do not have unrestricted evaluation versions.

Downloads

• Portlock Storage Manager 5.05 Release Candidate (360 MB ZIP)
  • Updated June 28, 2010
  • Quick Start Guide PDF (565 KB)
  • Portlock Image Scripting PDF (1.45 MB)
  • New Features in the Portlock Boot CD 5.14 PDF (1.1 MB)
  • RC includes new versions of Portlock Storage Manager, Portlock Boot CD and Portlock License Manager.
  • Fixes a VMware ESX / ESXi restore issue.
  • Improved support for scripting the image of NetWare servers.
  • Added support for Novell Cluster Services (NetWare 6.5)
  • Added support for iSCSI (NetWare 6.5)
  • Added support for Shared Storage (NetWare 6.5)
  • Added support for Paravirtualized NetWare on Xen
  • Improved integration with Portlock License Manager, Portlock Boot CD and Portlock Storage Manager:
    • Directly image NetWare servers from Portlock License Manager.
    • Script creation wizard for creating scripts to image servers.
  • Improved support for imaging DOS partitions that were created or resized incorrectly
  • Improved support for NetWare 6.0
  • Improved support for FTP Servers
  • Support for changing the base directory for Portlock Images and other storage objects
  • Fixes issue with Portlock Storage Manager reporting an error about 3rd Super Block
• Portlock Storage Manager 5.04 for NetWare (3.21 MB ZIP)
  
  • Released January 23, 2010
  • Added support for larger multi-segment volumes
  • Added support for version 40.84 NSS pools
  • Quick Start Guide PDF (565 KB)
  • Installation instructions
  • History.txt
  • Readme.txt
  • User Guide (2.3 MB PDF)
• Portlock Software Evaluation Licenses (1 KB ZIP)
  
  • For all products - Updated March 10, 2010
• Portlock License Manager
  
  • 32-bit Windows installer
  • 64-bit Windows installer
  • User Guide
• Portlock Boot CD for NetWare
  • User Guide (3.5 MB PDF)

Old Product Releases

We do not provide support for these versions.

• Portlock Storage Manager 5.03 for NetWare - September 16, 2009
• Portlock Storage Manager 5.02 for NetWare - August 18, 2009
• Portlock Storage Manager 5.01 for NetWare - July 6, 2009
• Portlock Storage Manager 5.00 for NetWare - June 3, 2009
• Portlock Storage Manager 4.01 for NetWare - March 18, 2007
• Portlock Storage Manager 4.00 - March 1, 2007
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.36 - March 13, 2006
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.35 - August 20, 2005
  • Release Size: 45 MB
  • Supports Traditional and NSS partitions and volumes.
  • Supports "bare-metal" restores from files, tape drives, CD/DVDs, FTP and Web Servers. No other disaster recovery product offers such a breadth of features.
  • Executes under MS-DOS and NetWare 3.12 - 6.5.
  • This release detects a very serious problem with DOS partitions created by Compaq SmartStart version 6.x. The size of these partitions is wrong and can easily overwrite a partition that adjoins it. This would destroy a NetWare partition sitting next to the DOS partition.
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.34 - May 15, 2005
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.33 - January 1, 2005
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.32 - December 29, 2004
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.31 - December 13, 2004
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.30 - November 30, 2004
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.29 - April 13, 2004
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.28 - April 4, 2004
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.27 - February 28, 2004
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.26 - January 13, 2004
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.25 - January 8, 2004
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.24 - December 22, 2003
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.23 - December 16, 2003
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.22 - November 18, 2003
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.21 - November 6, 2003
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.20 - October 18, 2003
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.19 - September 28, 2003
• Portlock Storage Manager 3.18 - September 8, 2003