Need your help - updated Notes/Domino virtualization survey

August 30 2010

It's been about a year since the last time we did this, and this time, we want to know about both client- and server-side virtualization technologies.  This area is moving fast and not a week goes by without a request for us to support some new virtualization technology.  VMWare and Citrix remain the most frequently-asked, but there are now half dozen others mentioned regularly.  The survey will only take about ten minutes to fill out; you need an IBM.com ID in order to do so.

Sample questions include:

  • What are your primary reasons for CLIENT Virtualization?
  • What are the important factors when deploying or upgrading new software in a virtualized environment?
  • Is anything preventing your organization from upgrading your CLIENTS to the latest MR/Fixpack more frequently?
Link: ibm.com: IBM Lotus Virtualization Survey >  (Please respond by September 10, 2010).

Ed Brill | Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Notes and Domino 8.5  Add/View Comments [8]

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  1. 1  Kurt Binnie  | 8/30/2010 11:58:00 AM

    Done.

    There is a slight glitch.. the "any other comments" field at the very end of the survey is mandatory and throws an error if left blank.

  1. 2  Sarah Lachance  | 8/30/2010 1:48:47 PM

    Thanks Kurt - we've removed the mandatory-ness of the field.

    Sarah

  1. 3  Eric Mack http://www.EricMackOnLine.com | 8/30/2010 5:46:41 PM

    Ed, will you be sharing the results? If so, you may want to share that as it will increase responses. I know it does for me.

  1. 4  norm  | 8/30/2010 6:32:31 PM

    done

  1. 5  Carlos  | 8/30/2010 8:15:38 PM

    Done

  1. 6  Serdar Basegmez http://lotusnotus.com | 8/31/2010 9:36:15 AM

    I shared the survey with my customers.

    I just want to append "Windows Terminal Services" issue, which seems absent in the survey.

    Considerable amount of my customers are using Microsoft Terminal Services to virtualize client environments even it is not formally supported by Lotus Notes. Most of their business applications are supported in Terminal services and they are reluctant to invest in Citrix just for Lotus Notes.

  1. 7  Christian Henseler  | 9/2/2010 6:49:56 AM

    @Serdar:

    I share your experience. That's why I've created an appropriate idea on IdeaJam some time ago:

    Support MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services (RDS)

    ({ Link })

    and as a tactical move

    Support for Citrix XenApp 6.0

    ({ Link })

    But I agree with you that we need native W2K8 R2 RDS support as soon as possible.

  1. 8  Serdar Basegmez http://lotusnotus.com | 9/6/2010 10:58:41 AM

    @Christian,

    I didn't have enough time to look for it on ideajam. Surely, it is being discussed on different platforms. I commented about it because I saw an absent option in the survey.

    This topic has just come to the table during a meeting with IT director of a bank an hour ago... I still don't have any suggestion other than 'using 64-bit windows' as an improvement. But not comfortable assisting a deployment which is not officially supported.

    Right now, I have nothing to do other than promoting your idea :)