Lotus Domino R5 Clustering with IBM eServer xSeries and Netfinity Servers

For many businesses, downtime due to server or software failure can have a significant impact on business results. One way to minimize downtime is by implementing clustered systems. Clusters are groups of servers treated as a single computing resource that provides services to network users. When a clustered server fails, its workload is passed to other members of the cluster until corrective action can be taken and the failed server is brought back in to operation again.

Domino’s clustering technology is independent of the servers’ underlying operating systems. This means that a single cluster can comprise servers running a variety of the operating systems supported by Domino, from System/390, to AIX, to Windows 2000 and Linux.

The examples in the book are based on IBM Netfinity servers. These machines, and the recently announced xSeries servers, are Intel-based, industry-standard systems that offer a number of innovative features to provide a stable and reliable platform for business-critical computing.

Microsoft Windows 2000 and Linux are the operating systems chosen for the examples. This choice reflects the growing interest in these operating systems in the corporate marketplace.

Updated 8 January 2003, to correct a typo in the syntax of two parameters in NOTES.INI

Chapter 1. Domino clustering overview
Chapter 2. Planning a Domino cluster
Chapter 3. Designing a Domino cluster
Chapter 4. Installing and configuring a Domino cluster
Chapter 5. Administering Domino clusters
Chapter 6. Domino and Windows 2000 clustering
Appendix A. Partitioned Domino servers
Appendix B. Tuning Domino clusters
Appendix C. NOTES.INI variables

Publish Date
21 November 2000

Last Update
08 January 2004

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Author(s)
Steve Russell
Kathleen McGivney
Zeljka Zoranovic

ISBN
013060836X

IBM Form Number
SG24-5141-01

Number of pages
268