I have upgraded our clustered domino 7 servers to 8.5. I also have a domino 7 server with databases which I want to move to the clustered servers. I also want to make some kind of redirect so the users automatically get redirectet to the clustered servers.
Should I first replicate the databases and after that move?
I believe they need to be at Release 8.0 or greater to take advantage of Redirect Files…
I would go ahead and make replicas of the databases from the current 7.x Server… Once you know that everything is replicated properly upgrade your Domino Server to 8.x and then using an 8.x Administration Client move the mail files to one of the Cluster Mates… (I know the replicas are already there so this should be fast) and then have the Administrator delete the files through Admin4.nsf which should leave the proper redirect files in their place and the Notes 8.x Clients will see them and do the right thing and make updates to point to the new locations…
I would validate this with a simple test database initially.