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Minimizing & Simplifying Your Domino Infrastructure Costs

Posted by Perry Hiltz, Solutions Architect

Before I joined BinaryTree, I worked for a German based chemical company as one of two Domino Administrators responsible for 40 distributed Domino servers and over 3,500 users. Our configuration consisted of five different Domino domains in North America. We agreed - with management’s buy in – to the idea of consolidating these five domains into a single domain. After many long discussions with our parent company and a final agreement to use this new domain as the basis for a single Global Domain (we had 43 domains total), we began building out our infrastructure. Our goal was to centralize all mail into two sets of clustered servers across two AS/400's.

With our infrastructure in place, we began devising a plan to start manually moving users. We developed a well-defined checklist of 35 different key checkpoints that needed to be accomplished in order to achieve our goal. As the objective was to use local field staff to complete this process, we handed the user move and desktop updates over to field services. We had really good people doing this job, but not all field engineers followed our checkpoints list completely, nor did they follow it in the proper sequence every time. With this manual domain migration approach, when a problem arose, we spent 2-3 hours with the field engineer or the end user trying to resolve the problem. It was a very time consuming and highly inefficient process.

There had to be a better way!

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Posted on 2/9/2011 9:15:00 AM | with 0 comments

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