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Upgrade vs New Installation

The process of deploying new Domino servers is similar to upgrading existing Domino servers.

Given this fact, this chapter assumes a Domino upgrade, but will call out anything that is required or unique

to a new Domino deployment.

A word about pilot deployment

When working with new software, whether a new version or a completely new product, many companies

include a pilot phase in their project plans. In a pilot, a smaller, representative group of servers and users

are upgraded. Often, pilot projects are used to improve deployment procedures and practices before

deploying to the enterprise, and they allow the project team the opportunity to test assumptions and fine-

tune procedures.

The knowledge and experience gained during a pilot deployment can dramatically improve results of a

production deployment, because it can uncover unanticipated problems in the environment, and allow them

to be resolved during the pilot phase, rather than after the product has gone into wide production.

Additionally, pilot projects typically have a specified duration, and at the end of the specified time period, the

success of the pilot is evaluated, and lessons-learned are captured and documented.

Some organizations choose to conduct their pilot deployment using the dot zero release of new software,

but standardize their wide-scale deployment on later point releases of the software. This approach may work

for you, as it has the benefit of allowing your organization to take advantage of any fixes for problems that

may be discovered after the initial release of the product.

Domino Server Additional Information

The following documents provide more information on deploying Lotus Domino.

• Replay and Questions/Answers from Open Mic call, "Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5"

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg21398120

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Supported configurations for Notes and Domino 8.5 (1358406)

describes the supported configurations of Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 when interoperating with

servers, templates, and/or clients from other releases such as 8.0.x, 7.0.x and 6.5.x.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg21358406

• How to size Domino and Sametime systems for full production loads on VMware ESX Server

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21267837