User`s guide

IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes
Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration
information
Hardware requirements
Lotus Notes, Domino Designer, Domino Server, Domino for System i, Domino for System z
Notes 8 and Domino 8 Beta hardware requirements
For a list of the Lotus Notes 8 Beta and Lotus Domino 8 Beta hardware requirements for each supported
platform, please see the release note titled "Notes 8 and Domino 8 Beta platforms and system
requirements" in the 'Software requirements' section of this chapter.
Domino for System i
System i: Server hardware requirements
System i (formerly i5/OS) requirements
z
IBM iSeries model 270 or 8xx servers; or eServer i5 model 520 and above
The following models are recommended:
z
iSeries 270, 810, 820, 825, 800-2464 and above
z
eServer i5 520-0901 and above
The following models are not supported:
z
iSeries 800-2463
z
eServer i5 520-0900
Note: Although a Domino server can run on any POWER model, the iSeries server models are
optimized for client/server applications such as Domino. iSeries 270, 800-2464, 810-2465, and
eServer i5 520-0901 are recommended for Notes-based mail or light applications only. Partial
processor models may not be suitable for compute-intensive applications; IBM eServer i5
520-0902 or higher recommended for CPU-intensive workloads.
Memory requirements
z
512 MB or more minimum
z
512 MB or more per Domino server
Disk requirements
z
2GB of free space minimum.
z
4 or more drives recommended
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