Virtualising IBM® Lotus Domino® & Sametime®

LAN2LAN provides expertise and solutions for successful deployments.

Virtualisation has become a mainstream technology; LAN2LAN has helped organisations consolidate under–utilised servers and reduce energy costs. While also helping to increase flexibility, improve availability and simplify disaster recovery for today’s dynamic environments.

But what are the special challenges with virtualising Lotus products such as Domino and Sametime? And what are the performance improvements you can expect to see?

As organisations embrace virtualisation in the data centre, many companies are now considering virtualising Lotus applications such as IBM Lotus Domino®and Sametime®. However some customers are still unsure if their environments can be virtualised.

LAN2LAN has already been a trusted partner for our customers when deploying Lotus in the physical world, and are now helping customers migrate to a virtualised environment. We can help with providing significant benefits such as;

• Reduce server sprawl and consolidate Lotus environments to run on fewer servers.
• Offer improved management and administration flexibility, through virtualisation solutions.

We offer our expertise and best practices for deploying enterprise critical applications in a virtual environment specially covering Lotus environments. Some of the areas where we help customers include

• Validating your environment to see if it is a good candidate for virtualisation. Are you ready to go virtual?
• Proven methods for migrating from physical to virtual.
• Best practices for virtualised setup, such as configuration, storage considerations, and sizing.
• Mixing virtual and physical environments, allowing customers to pick the best of both worlds.
• Proactive monitoring of virtual environment and helping meet SLAs

There are already case studies of enterprises that have virtualised up 70% of their Domino environment.

Benchmarking and tests have also proved Sametime scales well with over 100,000 chat users running on a single VMware ESX box, whilst maintaining service level agreements.

If you considering virtualising your Lotus environment or have already embarked on this project and need further support please contact us on 0870 787 4001 for an initial consultation.