we are thinking of adding standby server for our Blackberry Enterprise Server, one of the requirments is that before installing standby BES server we need to install domino cluster, can and if so how I you create cluster server for existing domino server? is it doable or do I have to reinstall domino and specify cluster install then?
Subject: About BES
You can not install BES on a Domino Cluster server. Please go through BES Prerequisits
Subject: Yes you can
acctually is is requirments if you want to use BES standby server please refer to BES 5.0 admin guide
Subject: I think I can answer my own question but
I guess I should read help files first so I know now answer to my orginal question, but this leads me to another question. So let say I have 2 servers in cluster and cluster is config to load balanced and each node is in different location connected via MPLS so ideally we’d like to people access node which is local to where they are is this doable?
Subject: About Clustering and Load Balancing
As you found out pretty easy to create a Cluster add Domino Servers to the cluster… My assumption may be wrong but I’m assuming the clustered servers are mail servers. For people you want to access the local node in the Cluster just set their Home Server in their person record and make sure their location record also has this server as the Home Server. Load balancing will only occur if the Server Availability Index goes below the Server Availability Threshold you configure… Unless you think these servers are going to be very busy this most likely will not occur… There are many articles papers on tuning Server Availability Index - Google “Server Availability and Domino” and you’ll find them.