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Subject: Single Global Domino mail cluster?
Feedback Type: Question
Product Area: Domino Server
Technical Area: Functionality
Platform: Windows
Release: 8.5.2
Reproducible: Not applicable

I am wondering if someone could help me to validate a change that we are planning regarding our Domino-based mail environment.

We are a worldwide company with about 20 offices which are spread across all continents. A lot of the offices are small, ranging from 2 to about 30 users. Plus we have a couple of locations that are in the 70-80 range. There are about 500 users in total.

Most of the offices have had their own Domino servers in a distributed model. Each of the remote locations’ mail servers have a cluster partner in a centralised datacentre in the UK for failover and backup purposes. In effect, each office is in its own, separate cluster. We also have a couple of locations have their mail hosted centrally in the same datacentre with access to Notes via Citrix XenApp.

What we are considering doing is consolidating all mail servers worldwide into a single, large cluster using the existing centralised servers. This will allow us to reduce the number of Domino servers as we will no longer need to retain the failover servers. The downside of course is that, assuming each server is capable of connecting to all other servers, the remote site will all be capable of cluster replicating with each other and so, potentially, we will lose some control over the bandwidth usage.

Something worth noting is that all sites’ WAN links are optimised via Riverbed Steelhead devices.

Has anyone got any experience of a similar setup? Would you recommend this configuration?

Thanks very much in advance,

Stephen.


Feedback number WEBB955C6S created by ~Mary Kitumigenikle on 02/21/2013

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