Planning model for Lotus Notes applications

Abstract

Lotus Domino servers support many databases, each of which is an application. With replication and clustering it is possible to spread a Notes applications over several servers. This many to many relation of servers and applications hides the specific resource requirements needed to support any one of the applications making it difficult to trend growth in an application and decide about future resource requirements. This paper describes a planning model that identifies resource requirements for servers, network, CPU, memory, and disk. Parameters of the model are supplied by analysis of the Domino log.nsf file. Data about a database on a server can be isolated and combined with similar data for the same database on other servers.