In few weeks time we are planning to migrate our Domino Servers from Windows environment to AIX platform. Currently our Domino Servers are in R7 environment. OS team will take care of the IP address mapping, OS build etc.
From Domino point of view I am planning to follow the below steps:
Take a complete back up of the notes data folder in Windows server.
Shutdown the Server
Install a fresh Domino 8.5 server on AIX platform using the server ID and cert id from Windows server
FTP all the data from Windows to AIX box.I believe copying the files through OS level will give more room for database corruption.
Modify the notes.ini file to change the path of programs and data folders
Start the Domino server on AIX
Run Fixup, Compact and updall on the databases
create a catalog.nsf database to avoid the bookmarks on the workspace in the Notes client do not work.
Since I would be installing a fresh Domino 8.5 server on AIX I believe that is equal to upgrading the Domino Servers from R7 to R8.5
Can anyone please tell me what are all the other steps i need to follow. Thanks in Advance.
Clustering includes some special features to make replication run faster, and you can use AdminP to initiate the process. Once the replication is done it’s a relatively simple matter to break the cluster, shut down both servers, then update the AIX server with the ID from the Windows server and adjust the IP address and servername in the notes.ini on AIX. In essence you can swap out the OS underneath Domino and it won’t care.
I would suggest doing cleanup on old server first. Then I would recommend upgrading the Windows server to 8.5. Build your new AIX server fresh and then move the applications over using the Administration process. By doing so you can use the redirect marker to " update their database references for the database you are moving. The Notes client will update references such as bookmarks and desktop shortcuts to the location to which the database has been moved." This will keep user interuption to a minimum and transfering only mecessary data cleanly to the new server. You also won’t have to modify the notes.ini and the applications should not have to have maintenance run on them since they are being created as replicas.
I thought of creating a catalog.nsf database to avoid the bookmarks on the workspace in the Notes client do not work. We will validate all the possible options and choose the best one. Apart from the points I have mentioned do I need to take care of anything else. My server movement also includes Mail files apart from the applications.