This is a topic I find myself debating quite a bit lately. I “get” the benefits of virtualizing it, I really do. But the normal behavior/benefit of Domino skews things a bit.
Our Domino environments replicate databases everywhere. Its also really easy to start up a new Domino server on another box in the event of a disaster (an ID file, names.nsf, notes.ini and a bit of elbow grease and BOOM you’ve got a box that thinks its been a Domino server for some time). Those two features alone have always weighed heavily in my continued committment of the Domino platform because it removes a lot of headaches associated with disaster recovery and business contniuity planning.
Still, virtualization is a good idea. But how? What do I need to be thinking about? How do I get started?
And then this article (“Benefits of virtualizating Lotus Domino“) arrives in my inbox. This is probably one of the most helpful rundowns of the virtualization concept that is specific to Domino that I’ve seen. So I’m sharing.
Tags: domino, virtualization, vm
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