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Nov 12, 2013, 12:08 PM
5 Posts

Windows to linux Domino migration

  • Category: Domino Server
  • Platform: Linux
  • Release: 9.0
  • Role: Administrator
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  • Replies: 5

Dear all,

I would like your help regarding our current domino infrastructure.

More specifically, we are running on Domino 6.5 messaging servers on Windows 2003.

We want to upgrade to IBM Domino 9 and to RedHat 6.4 instead of Windows.

i have currently set up aDomino 9 server in Linux, from scratch, but yet i havent configured it at all.

What would be the recomended steps to proceed?

Is it wise to try and register the new server  as an aditional server, to our current infrastructure and then configure?

Given that it would be a linux O/S, could it be any conflict with mixing with windows infrastructure?

What is the best way to copy the data (mail files, etc..) to the new server?

 

Any help will be much appreciated.

 

Thank you very much

 

 

Nov 12, 2013, 1:43 PM
45 Posts
Mixed Windows and Domino
I run Domino on both Windows and Linux and have moved servers from Windows to Linux. Very few issues. The biggest gotcha is that Linux file and path names are case sensitive.

In your case I would be more concerned with adding a Domino 9 server into the older infrastructure, but if it's a step to migrating off the older version I don't think you'll have much issue.

You can use replication to bring the files over unless the volume of data is too much for that.

Hope that's helpful.

David
Nov 12, 2013, 8:20 PM
145 Posts
My thoughts
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/Page_1_Planning_the_Domino_Server_85x_deployment#newormove

See the section "Upgrade Domino on an existing machine or move to a new one?"

I know above references 8.5, but all upgrade principles apply to 9.0.1 as well...  Hopefully will have new document available before end of year on upgrading to 9.0.x


Sounds like you are leaning towards

Option 4 -
Install New Domino Server (New Identity)

which is fine....  There are no issues with having your current Domino Server on Windows and your new Domino Server on Linux...

You can simply create new replicas of the mail files on the Domino Linux Server using the Admin Client and Adminp Processing...

Feel free to drop me an e-mail if you have any other questions. jpaganet@us.ibm.com

Regards,
John Pag


Nov 15, 2013, 1:14 PM
5 Posts
done update

First of all thank you very much for your responses.

We have the following infrastructure:

Mail1 = the initial mail server with Domino 6.5 used to create the Lotus domain

Mail2 = a Backup aditional server replicating from mail1 to use in emergency

MailBranch = production mail server for supporting users in a branch in the same Lotus domain.

All above servers are in Domino 6.5 and Windows 2003 R2

 

What i did, was to shutdown and disconnect Mail2, install Centos 6 x64 and Domino 9 on a new machine but with exactly the same ip address and hostname with Mail2.

After this, i setup the Domino server as an aditional server pointing to the already existed Mail2.id which i took from the old Mail2.

The server is up and running and we can connect with Domino administrator succesfully, but no databases (mail files, SAV, names.nsf) yet replicated to it.

The mail files are 150gb and i do not want to push them via replication because we may face network performance issues.

Now i will try to copy names.nsf from the old Mail2 to the new one, which i think it will work and regarding the mail files, i think that i must copy them from a usb drive to the server and they will be recognized.

Is this approach correct?

Do you have to suggest something different or something to pay attention to?

Thank you very much

 


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