Domino 7 Upgrade

For those of you who don't follow my blog, I've been meaning to post an 
unofficial opinion about my Domino 7 upgrade.

If you're an iSeries customer with Domino Web Access users waiting until 
now to upgrade to 7.0, I would suggest waiting until February (hopefully) 
for 7.0.1.

We have been working with Lotus support on http crashes that take our Mail 
server down (in some cases 5 times per day!). I have sent Lotus support 
25+ NSDs and Console logs (since November 17) and we have gone through 3 
Debugging hotfixes (and it's not isolated to us, several other customers 
on Wintel and iSeries have reported this). I loaded a hotfix Tuesday night 
that we believe is an actual fix. I will say that Lotus Support has been 
great through this!!

I have not had an HTTP crash for this entire week. We have gone 1 week 
without a crash on 7.0 before, though, so I can't guarantee yet that this 
has been corrected with the current hotfix PTF. But, I am really hopeful 
this time.

Along with this, if you use Notes Smart Upgrade and you have a lot of 
clients that are multi-user installs, the 7.0 Notes Upgrade will require 
them to fill in the Client Configuration wizard. See technote 1219467. I 
am told that this will be fixed with the 7.0.1 client.

As far as performance goes, I can say that I have seen much better 
performance on our servers. At 6.5.4 FP2, we were averaging 27.3% CPU for 
the App server alone. At 7.0, we are averaging 23.7% CPU. That's a 13% 
reduction in CPU for the Application server. For my mail server, it's 
roughly the same. At 6.5.4 FP2, we averaged 19.55% CPU and this week 
(after a week of uptime with no CPU spikes from restarts!) we've averaged 
16.91% - that's a 13.5% reduction in CPU as well. 

Memory utilization has gone up some on 7.0 - about 10% on the App server 
and it's about the same on the Mail server.

Also, you have to be at V5R3 to run Domino 7, but that's highly documented 
- just an FYI...

Have a Happy New Year!

Chris Whisonant
Comporium
Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator
IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2
IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
803.326.7270 | 803.326.6142 fax
http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com/

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