Migrate Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook: SysTools perspective August 8, 2009
Posted by systoolssoftware in Data Conversion, Data Migration, Domino, Domino Server, Exchange Server, Export Notes, MS Office, NSF, NSF to PST, Outlook, Outlook Express, PST.Tags: Domino, Exchange, Lotus Notes, Lotus Notes Migration, Migration, MS Outlook, Notes to Exchange Migration, NSF to PST
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Domino Server V/s Exchange July 4, 2009
Posted by systoolssoftware in Domino, Domino Server, Exchange Server, Export Notes, Lotus Notes, MS Office, Outlook, Outlook Express.Tags: Comparision, Domino, Domino Server, Exchange, Exchange Server, IBM Lotus
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The below link provides a detailed comparision between MS Exchange Server & Domino Server
http://www.itcomparison.com/Mail/Exchange2k7vslotus8/Exchange2k7vslotus8.htm
Though it failed to provide any comparision on performance.
Domino Server 8.5 Performance Benchmarks July 3, 2009
Posted by systoolssoftware in Domino, Domino Server, Lotus Notes.Tags: Domino, Domino Performance, Domino Performance Benchmark, Domino Server, Domino Server 8.5, IBM Domino, Lotus, Lotus Domino, Performance
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IBM has released the performance benchmarks for the Domino Server 8.5. The following variations were tried for the benchmarks
- Windows 2003 Server
- Linux
- IBM
- AIX
- Solaris
The product is tried with 1000, 2000,3000 and 4000 simultaneous users. Please check the link below for the complete report
Domino Roaming Users June 14, 2009
Posted by systoolssoftware in Domino, Domino Server.Tags: Domino, Domino Server, Lotus Domino, Lotus Notes, Roaming Users
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One of the very good feature to highligh in Domino Server is Roaming users. Please check the link below
Nice post on the same topic.
Good Post on Lotus Desktop June 12, 2009
Posted by systoolssoftware in Domino Server, Export Notes, Lotus Notes.Tags: D, Domino, Exaleadesktop, Lotus, Lotus Desktop, Lotus Notes, Notes
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Check out the below link to read a good post on Lotus Desktop
http://blog.exalead.com/2009/06/02/search-smarter-from-your-lotus-desktop/
Domino 8.5 Cool Feature:DAOS June 11, 2009
Posted by systoolssoftware in Deployment, Domino Server, Lotus Notes.Tags: DAOS, Domino, Domino 8.5, IBM Lotus Notes, Lotus, Lotus Notes
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One of the biggest feature of Domino Server 8.5 is DAOS i.e. Domino Attachment and Object Service. Its objective is to save the server disk space utilized by redundant attachment across users. So using DAOS the Domino Server now stores a single copy for each attachment.
DAOS is an optional feature for Domino server and can be enabled for the selected databases on the server. It maintains a single copy of each attachment in a central mapped repository. Once the feature is enabled then all databases which are part of the DAOS will stores the attachment in a central repository.
RAID Configuration for Domino Server June 10, 2009
Posted by systoolssoftware in 21141317, Deployment, Domino Server, Export Notes, Hardware, Lotus Notes, RAID.Tags: Domino, Domino Server, Lotus Domino Server, Lotus Notes, RAID
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Considering today’s requirement and availability of better hardware the question of which RAID level should be used for Domino can be answered very quickly.
Before we go ahead let’s know more about various RAID level (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID)
- RAID 0 (striped disks) distributes data across several disks in a way that gives improved speed and no lost capacity, but all data on all disks will be lost if any one disk fails. Although such an array has no actual redundancy, it is customary to call it RAID 0.
- RAID 1 (mirrored settings/disks) duplicates data across every disk in the array, providing full redundancy. Two (or more) disks each store exactly the same data, at the same time, and at all times. Data is not lost as long as one disk survives. Total capacity of the array equals the capacity of the smallest disk in the array. At any given instant, the contents of each disk in the array are identical to that of every other disk in the array.
- RAID 5 (striped disks with parity) combines three or more disks in a way that protects data against loss of any one disk; the storage capacity of the array is reduced by one disk.
- RAID 6 (striped disks with dual parity) (less common) can recover from the loss of two disks.
- RAID 10 (or 1+0) uses both striping and mirroring. “01″ or “0+1″ is sometimes distinguished from “10″ or “1+0″: a striped set of mirrored subsets and a mirrored set of striped subsets are both valid, but distinct, configurations.
Considering RAID 10 is better in Write compare to RAID 5 and RAID 5 is better than RAID 10 for READ (http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/billg/archive/2007/06/18/RAID-10-vs.-RAID-5-Performance.aspx) the decision to choose should depend upon the following factors
- How much is allocated for the deployment?
- If the number of WRITES on Domino server is more than RAID 10 is recomended.
- Go with mix strategy i.e. have the Domino Data directory on higher RAID level and the program files on lower RAID level.
