Re: Domino 7 Upgrade

Mike, I've still not had any issues with the temporary hotfix. Lotus has 
informed me of a permanent hotfix for our issue that they hope to put in 
7.0.1.

With 7.0.1 coming sometime in February (hopefully), you may want to hold 
off  with the dotzero release and get 7.0.1 then. But I think 7.0 is ok 
now (at least from my perspective).

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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01/20/2006 09:35:50 AM:

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> Chris and others:
> At this point and time would you recommend up upgrade to Notes 7.0 or
> should we wait for 7.1?
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> Mike Poweleit
> OKI Bering
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> As a follow-up to this. After over 2 weeks of having the hotfix loaded I
> have not experienced a crash. Lotus Support also tells me that none of 
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> other customers have had a crash after loading the fix.
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> For those of you who don't follow my blog, I've been meaning to post an
> unofficial opinion about my Domino 7 upgrade.
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> 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
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> that we believe is an actual fix. I will say that Lotus Support has been
> great through this!!
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> 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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