Sametime 8 on RedHat Linux Rocks !
Category IBM/Lotus Sametime
Finally, I've completed the build for Sametime 8, on Linux with round-robin DNS for failover. It's very, very cool. The new audio codec is amazing clear (I'd better be attentive to when my laptop's microphone is open).
There are lots of little touches that make all the difference: the push-to-talk walkie-talkie mode or the support for twin-head video output.
I'll give more details later, but it's such a relief to be able to deploy these servers into production. The testing crew has been giving it rave reviews.
I had actually hoped to get the servers working when they they released the Linux edition of ST 7.51. However, it was a little rough, and IBM/Lotus kept coming out with successive upgrades until the pieces all fit together with ST 8.0.1. Domino LDAP, Notes, iNotes, and our BES servers are all humming nicely.
The tough part was untangling the byzantine process required in creating a fail-over environment. I'll document it in a forthcoming post. It was so confusing, that I'm confident not many ST8 Linux servers are running in the wild, outside of IBM's server farms.
So right now, I'll enjoy having the only clustered Sametime Linux installation in two hemispheres.
Technorati Tags: IBM Lotus Sametime, Linux
Finally, I've completed the build for Sametime 8, on Linux with round-robin DNS for failover. It's very, very cool. The new audio codec is amazing clear (I'd better be attentive to when my laptop's microphone is open).
There are lots of little touches that make all the difference: the push-to-talk walkie-talkie mode or the support for twin-head video output.
I'll give more details later, but it's such a relief to be able to deploy these servers into production. The testing crew has been giving it rave reviews.
I had actually hoped to get the servers working when they they released the Linux edition of ST 7.51. However, it was a little rough, and IBM/Lotus kept coming out with successive upgrades until the pieces all fit together with ST 8.0.1. Domino LDAP, Notes, iNotes, and our BES servers are all humming nicely.
The tough part was untangling the byzantine process required in creating a fail-over environment. I'll document it in a forthcoming post. It was so confusing, that I'm confident not many ST8 Linux servers are running in the wild, outside of IBM's server farms.
So right now, I'll enjoy having the only clustered Sametime Linux installation in two hemispheres.
Technorati Tags: IBM Lotus Sametime, Linux
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