Virtualization Daily

hObbel is reporting on efforts to convert to VMware Infrastructure 3 including how they went about converting one of their domino servers.

We decided to virtualize one of our main Lotus Domino servers, and as we all know email is definitely business critical and significant downtime is really not an option. The sheer size of our Domino based databases, as well as the fact that the Domino server had local storage, forced us to try and think outside the (physical)box. A qualified guesstimate gave us an ETA of 15hours worth of file copy action if we were to copy the whole Domino data directory over the network to the new VM.

The approach he describes in his post is something that could be useful for more than just Lotus Domino systems when downtime needs to be minimized.