Suggestions for server planning

HCL Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum (includes Notes Traveler)

Subject: Suggestions for server planning

Feedback Type: Question

Product Area: Domino Server

Technical Area: Administration

Platform: Windows 2003 server

Release: 8.5

Reproducible: Not applicable

I am considering the architecture of our domino setup, and would appreciate some guidance or opinions.

We have a main office and a branch office.
Everyone has a local replica of their mail.
Our mail server also runs a CRM application, mNotes for 5 users, and gives iNotes access too.

We have another server which has replicas of our mail files and runs community sametime.

I want to serve iNotes from our DMZ not our LAN for security reasons, and also want to run Traveller to see whether it can replace mNotes.

I had originally thought of housing our second server in our branch office for offsite redundancy - the branch users getting their mail from the local server and our main office continuing to get mail from the main mail server.

Now, I want to run the second server in a DMZ instead, with iNotes access and traveller.
Cost wise, I can't run another server.

I would like to keep running sametime - at the moment it is barely being used, but that is because it is just being tested at the mo, users have not been encouraged to use it, but I want them to.

Both servers have been upgraded from 6.5.4 to 8.5.
They are running on Windows 2003.
We have 50 - 60 users.

Does anyone have some suggestions for me please?
I am concerned about which solutions will run with eachother, or won't, i.e. iNotes and sametime together, what about Traveller?

regards, Tom

Feedback number WEBB7S6GGU created by ~Arnold Breboosisterings on 05/18/2009

Status: Open
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