IBM Lotus Quickr clustering concepts

To best understand the concept of clustering with Lotus Quickr, it is important to consider one key piece of information. Lotus Quickr Domino lives on top of the Lotus Domino software stack. The concepts and deployment patterns used with Lotus Domino clustered deployments are just as relevant. This holds true for monitoring and performance tuning methods.

A Lotus Quickr cluster starts with a minimum of two Lotus Domino servers, that have the Lotus Quickr product installed with matching update levels. Ideally the Lotus Domino servers should also have matching version numbers across the cluster as typical best practices. At a minimum, they need to be at a prerequisite level for the current version of Lotus Quickr being deployed. The following screenshot represents a typical clustered environment with three nodes servicing end user requests.

Consider that in practice, most clusters consist of two or three members. While it is technically possible to support...