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texasjohn
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Vertualize or Not

We have three Lotus Notes boxes. One is the mail server. the second is a Lotus application server and the third is an Blackberry enterprise server. I am looking for some methods or tools that will allow me to determine which ones would be good candidates for virtualization.

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esiebert7625
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Here's a couple posts on this, in general Domino is a good virtualization candidate.

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=634123

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=570269

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=652904

Aso see this for BES...

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=677356&#677356

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=705331&#705331

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acr
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Eric's pretty much got it covered, both Lotus and BES virtualize well.

I have seen BES crash on a regular basis (both as physical and virtaul) although its not a long job to resynch etc, as a virtual Machine ive seen users simply blow away the BES Server when it goes belly up and redeploy from the backup.. Seems to work great..

Basically Lotus and BES make good candidates..

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VirtualNoitall
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Hello,

A couple of the above mentioned links point to my responses Smiley Happy BES is a great virtualization candidate. If supportability is important just make sure you have a version of the BES where ESX is officially supported. 4.1.x I believe but you can double check.

We virtualize a large number of small Domino Servers and have had not issues relating to being in a virtual machine.

One things to remember is from a sizing perspective; virtual machine are no different than physical machines. Also make sure you can handle the I/O your Domino servers will require.

Hope that helps!

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