Hello all, I am planning on doing a migrate/upgrade to VMware at the same time. If I could get your ideas or forseeable problems that would be great.
A little bit of background first. We have 5 servers that would need to be upgraded and 4 of them are 7.0.1 and 1 is 6.0.2 and all the servers are on physical hardware at the moment. Currently we do not have a testing environment/domain so this was my plan.
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Install a domino v8 server into my production environment. I would then tell the developer it is there and that he could replicate db’s over there and test them out. Once they are working fine with v8 basically he would check it off and move on to the next one.(problem I see with this is how do I test mail/calendaring and this could take a long time. Do any of you have any suggestions on testing).
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Once all the testing is done and everything is ok I then was going to install domino v8 servers onto new VMware virtual servers.(Our goal is to have all domino servers on VM) These new servers would have exact name and settings as v7 but not be on our domain yet.
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I would then copy/migrate all the db’s from the domino v7 servers to the v8 servers on VM.
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I would decommision all the domino v7 servers.
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I would then add all the v8 servers to our domain. Once that is complete I would start them and hope all is fine.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated or is there a better way to go about this considering our goal is to have all domino servers on v8 and on VMware virtual servers.
Thanks in advance and also a side note I have only been an admin for around a year and have no one else here to turn to. So this would be my first upgrade.