Lots-o-Werk

Last week I finished up a large block of Hub and Mail Lotus Domino R8 upgrades. By the end of the week there were 20 servers upgraded from R7 to R8. Other admins helped with another 6. In total there are ...

26 R8 Domino partitions,
9 R7,
6 R6,
and 3 R5.

The rest of the servers will be done, as needed, dependant on the support of the speciality server administrators.

Two of my major application groups already have R8 QA servers (included in the count above), so the application testing can go ahead as needed. While I do application development as well, most of my role will be support for the primary developers.

Next Part: A majority of my focus will be on the client software installation. Followed by the mailbox template customizations.

The Biggest Hurdle

Hooray! The Superhub is upgraded!


Background

I manage a Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure which covers North America with a hub and spoke design. The Superhub is the central messaging and data replication point in that infrastructure. Each physical site may have several servers (in a hub and spoke configuration as well) to support local clients. Each physical site's data and messages traverse the Superhub to other North America sites or to other regional data centers around the world. For an illustration look at http://www.scribd.com/doc/19492037/Super-Hubs .


The Events

In preparation of a few rogue sites not waiting on any official project I hardened the Superhub from any impact of a mixed version environment or from newer design elements leaking into other environments. In December I was able to finalize the How to Upgrade document and the OS scripts to support the procedure. Finally, it took a little time, but we got the project and date approval we needed so, in mid-march we did it.

Using the scripts developed back in December, the whole upgrade and maintenance on the system DBs, the upgrade of their designs, and ODS upgrade (On Disk Structure reorganization) affecting about 4.5 GB took only 1.5 hours. With no bug or errors reported, later that week we finished the upgrade by performing an ODS upgrade on the rest of the system affecting > 600 GB.


Now there's no holding back thoes rogue admins with their dreams new software! |-:-)

The Big Chart

The Big Chart

Finished another brain transplant yesterday.

Our VM Admin preped the new instance in November. I spent 3 weeks preping the software load of Domino, DB2 client and db connections, Java, and a few independent add-ins. A few fellow sysadmins loaded up MQ Series client, NetIQ, and CommVault. On Friday, the VM admin starting the data migration from the old HP physical server to the new virtual machine. The data transfer took 28 hours, with and average throughput of 30 GB/hour. On Sunday morning, shortly after 12:30 AM, I stood up the Domino Services and did preliminary testing. Later the Analyst, Programmers, and I did additional testing and handed it over to the client system owners (owners of the various databases and programs running on this server). 1 Class A app, 80+ Class B apps, and numerous other app and mail-in DBs. Testing completed without flaw.

Thanks to everyone who helped out! :)

The Rob Kraft Hunt

Rob Kraft (Robert - more properly) is a fellow in the world who I would hang out with as a young adult. I lost contact with him when I went off to serve in the U.S. Army. Most of the time, I would find him over at a friend's home, Mark Gunderson, with a few others, including Tom Cherry. The last I heard his mom moved to Deleware, Ohio and he moved there with her.

I have, from time to time, randomly e-mailed Rob Krafts I find in searches to no avail. So I decided to try to keep better track of my searched by putting the list of addresses here. (Ok, so there's only one when I posted this! But, you got to start a list somewhere!)

If you are Rob Kraft, and want to see any information about about your former friends, check us out on FaceBook:

Lesley: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=536183703
Mark: http://www.facebook.com/friends/?filter=afp#/TheECC
Tom: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=813434291



The Robs

rob@robkraft.org

What can I do with this?

Just testing before I do more here.