IBM® Lotus® Domino® 7 Server & Administration

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IBM® Lotus® Domino® 7 Server &
Administration

Kevin O’Connell

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IBM® Lotus® Notes® and Domino® 7 Products

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Core products

Lotus Notes and Domino
Lotus Domino Web Access (formerly iNotes Web Access)
Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft® Outlook
Lotus Domino Designer

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Extended products

Lotus Sametime®
Lotus QuickPlace®
Lotus Domino Document Manager
Lotus Workflow™
Lotus Enterprise Integrator® for Domino

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Take off the Gloves!

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administration
Deliver complete open-standard based solutions
on Linux
Provide in-line upgrade of server and client
Without requiring Rip & Replace!

Anything less is simply not enough!

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IBM Lotus Domino 7 Themes

Attractive TCO

Opportunity for significant performance and scalability gains
Major Administration improvements

Many Valuable Enhancements

Messaging
Security features
Lotus Domino Web Access

New Application Platform Capabilities

Web Services support
IBM DB2 database integration

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Lotus Domino 7 Performance

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Lotus Domino 7 Performance Goals

Lotus Domino 7 Performance Improvement Scope

Improve NotesBench scalability
Reduce Domino CPU utilization
Validate results in live IBM production environment

Test Measurements conducted using

R6Mail (Lotus Notes client) NotesBench workload (6.x and 7.x mail templates)
R6iNotes (Lotus Domino Web Access) NotesBench workload (6.x and 7.x mail
templates)
New enterprise mail workload created to measure CPU improvement

Results in deployed environments will vary

Differences in workload
Platform tuning factors

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Lotus Domino 7 NotesBench NRPC Results

NotesBench 'R6Mail' Users 20 50% 50% Increase 80% 20% 11%
Thousands 18 400% 80%

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Windows AIX
x86 Linux

Solaris
iSeries
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zOS

Lotus Domino 6.5 Lotus Domino 7.0 7
Full performance report is available from the Lotus Domino 7 Performance
Improvements link at http://www.ibm.com/lotus/domino

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Lotus Domino Web Access 7 NotesBench Results

20 Increase
NotesBench 'R6iNotes' Users18
Thousands 50% 50% 50% 65% 13% 50% 50%

Windows 16
AIX
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x86 Linux
Solaris12
iSeries
zLinux10
zOS
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Lotus Domino 6.5 Lotus Domino 7.0

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CPU Improvement for Lotus Domino 7 Notes Mail

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Active Users, response time < 1 Sec

Lotus Domino 6.5 Lotus Domino 7.0

Lotus Domino 7 compared with Lotus Domino 6.5 (6.5 mail template),
using R6Mail NotesBench NRPC workload running on AIX 5.2.

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CPU Improvement for Lotus Domino Web Access 7

CPU % busy 100
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Active Users, response time < 1 Sec

Lotus Domino 6.5 Lotus Domino 7.0

Lotus Domino 7 (with DWA7 template) compared with Lotus Domino 6.5
using R6iNotes NotesBench workload, Windows 2003 Standard Edition.

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Lotus Domino 7 - 35% CPU reduction in IBM production

systems

Abnormally high
antivirus scan task

increased CPU
utilization

Lotus Domino 6.5.1 Lotus Domino 7 Beta 3 Lotus Domino 7 Beta 4

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Lotus Domino 7 Administration

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Lotus Domino 7 Administration Goals

Reduce largest direct administration costs

Server monitoring and admin costs
Client Deployment/Upgrade costs
User, Desktop lockdown

Reduce largest indirect costs

Improved scalability to allow server consolidation
Improved monitoring to prevent unplanned downtime

Align with IBM Autonomic Computing

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What’s new in Lotus Domino 7

Administration highlights

NEW !! Activity Trends
Lotus Domino Domain Monitoring
Improved Policy Based Management
Smart Upgrade Improvements
Linux/Mozilla Web Admin Client

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Activity Trends

Formerly available with Tivoli® Analyzer

A capacity planning and resource/load balancing tool for Lotus Domino
domains
Gathers and analyzes Lotus Domino activity data
Resource balance many Lotus Domino servers by moving databases across
servers
Key technologies:

Patented heuristic methods
Visual analysis tools
Self-healing, -optimization, -configuration
Automated change management with full administration-cycle support

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Activity
Trends

Resource Balancing

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Lotus Domino Domain Monitoring

Addresses TCO by providing a means to quickly monitor and determine the
health of an entire domain at a single UI location and quickly resolve
problems.

Automate problem determination/analysis by feature
Rollup, prioritize and resolve problems across servers
Hide details until you need them.
Make Lotus Domino Domain Monitoring checks and reporting configurable and
flexible
Pave the way for further autonomic initiatives

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Screen shot of DDM

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Policy Based Management

Apply settings to multiple users
based on

Organizational structure
Explicit, non-organizational
assignments

In version 6.5

Notes Client desktop/setup: security,
registration, archiving

In version 7

Client Policy Lock-Down for all
settings
Mail and calendar settings

Benefits:

Reduced cost of client support

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Smart Upgrade Improvements in Lotus Domino 7

Smart Upgrade tracking
Governor - Limit the number of Smart Upgrades per hour (also in v6.5.4)
Smart Upgrade server cluster failover to another server
Smart Upgrade failover from shared drive path kit to Attachment kit.
Smart Upgrade fields added to the desktop policy settings document.

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Linux/Mozilla Web Admin

Fully featured Domino Web Admin
experience for Linux web browser

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Other Domino Enhancements

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Improved Email Management

Spam management

DNS blacklists (also in version 6.x)
Private blacklists
Private whitelists
DNS whitelists

Message disclaimers
Archiving by date

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Lotus Domino Server – Security & LDAP

Security

Single Sign-on - more flexible naming for Single-Sign-On LTPA token
Stronger encryption in Lotus Notes RPC

1024-bit RSA keys
128-bit symmetric keys
Programmatic interfaces for manipulating secure email
Various ID management improvements

LDAP

Improved performance
LDAP server thread pooling
DA LDAP miss caching

Lotus Domino Domain Monitor LDAP server health monitoring

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Lotus Domino Web Access

Lotus Domino Web Access

Rich user experience and
features – mail, calendar, contacts,
to do
Offline support
Windows or Linux
Internet Explorer or Mozilla

New in version 7

S-MIME security
More IM integration
User productivity features
Enhanced cache clearing

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New Application Platform Capabilities

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Why Integrate Lotus Domino with DB2?

Consolidate Lotus Domino data in DB2 relational database

Leverage DB2 for storage of Lotus Domino data
Allows enterprises to integrate Domino data with other DB2 applications
(e.g. IBM Workplace applications)

Enable Lotus Domino Developers to build new applications

Combine Lotus Domino collaborative capabilities with DB2 relational data using
Standard Query Language (SQL)
Tools built into Lotus Domino Designer®

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Lotus Domino 7 - Platform Support

Windows 2000 Server & Advanced Server
Windows 2003 Server & Enterprise Edition
AIX 5.2 & 5.3
Solaris 9.0
zOS 1.5 and higher
OS/400 V5R3 (iSeries)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL)
Novell SUSE Linux (SLES) 8 & 9 (Intel 32 architecture)
Novell SUSE Linux (SLES) 8 (zSeries)
Novell SUSE Linux (SLES) 9 (zSeries)

(Lotus Domino running in toleration mode on 64-bit Linux)

Currently planned for future release:

Solaris 10.0

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Lotus Notes and Domino 7 -- Early Deployment

Successful large scale early deployment @ IBM

Lotus Domino 7.0 mail users served

60,000 Beta 3 Beta 4
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Additional Information

Links available at http://www.ibm.com/lotus/domino

What's new in Lotus Domino 7
Lotus Domino 7 Performance Improvements
Lotus Domino and DB2 feature
Ferris Research: New Features and TCO Benefits of IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 7
Plus much, much more

IBM Lotus Domino and DB2 feature for Domino 7 program - developerWorks

http://www.lotus.com/ldd/d7db2.nsf

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