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.
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, …