I am looking at installing Domino 6.01 on a 2000 server that doubles as the main file/print server.
Is it generally a good practice to run Domino on the same server or should it be placed on a seperate box?
Currently not a lot of hard drive space is being used, and will have about 60+ GB free after install. Guessing that once databases are being created hard drive space will become an issue down the road??
Thanks in advance.
Subject: Domino 6 with File server
I don’t think it’s a good idea to use the same box …I suppose you’re talking about a small site (Like here). If you have not to many users or too heavy applications, I dont think that performance will be an issue, but when there are problems, it’s sometimes hard to locate the cause (File server or Domino).
I run a site with about 25 users (seldom more than 15 concurrent users). I’ve installed the domino server on a $1000 machine (HP Netserver) with Windows2000 client as OS. This is not a supported OS by Lotus but I never had any problems with it. It’s rock stable.
As a fileserver we use now a NAS-type server : it’s cheap, performs well and there’s no hassle with licences, but you can’t run other soft on it (like antivirus).
If you do want to use the same box, I would advice to add a separate disk for domino, and another separate disk for transactional logging (if you want to enable that, of course). This will help to achieve a better performance.
In the old days (R4.5) I ran a Notesserver on a Netware server that was also used as a file/print server. It caused a lot of problems.
Subject: Domino 6 with File server
I have been using a small linux box (SuSE 8.0) for some time as both a Fileserver and a Domino box with few problems. But we only have 10 users.
Haven’t had any difficulty in keeping the file server problems separate from the Domino problems except for a short time last year when the Domino http stack would randomly crash the server by spawning a plethora of processes.