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~Sarah Rekibergakoi
Jan 29, 2018, 7:43 PM
1 Posts

Domino migration to VMware

  • Category: Domino Server
  • Platform: Windows
  • Release: 9.0.1
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Hello,

We have 15 Lotus Domino Server – 10 Mail Servers, 2 SMTP Servers, 2  Lotus Traveler Servers and 1 Application Server. All are running on physical boxes. We want to migrate all the servers into our virtual environment running on VMware 5.5. Please advise the best approach how to achieve this goal.

Thanks in advance..

~Sigmund Quetweteretsi
Feb 22, 2018, 6:53 AM
6 Posts
If your sizing for the virtual environment is fine, you can move your servers to the virtual machines in the same way you would replace the physical hardware. Basically there are two ways to move the servers:

- "the Domino way": Install and configure new Domino servers on the VMs and move the users and databases by using the adminp and replication
- by file transer: install the new server, shutdown the old server, copy the files using the OS file manager, ...

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