Introduction

Eric Siebert is a Domino Guru and also a VMware guru, as well as the guy that runs http://vsphere-land.com, and he's written a great article on IT Knowledge Exchange about the realities of running Domino on ESX.

His article was driven by a couple of IBM support articles that discourage folks from virtualizing Domino, and he explains how to do it properly and Not Be Afraid.

Intended Audience

IBM/Lotus Domino administrators and VMware Certified Professionals, when considering virtualizing Domino.

Outline

• The Key to Successfully Virtualizing Domino Servers

• IBM Support Post 1: High CPU usage by router and poor performance of Domino under VMware

• IBM Support Post 2: Poor performance of Domino HTTP server on VMware ESX 3.0 and 3.5

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

• Benefits of virtualizing Lotus Domino servers

• Ensure maximum performance from virtualized Lotus Domino servers