Product deployment architectures

The Lotus Quickr product can be deployed in a number of different topologies. The two basic designs consist of a single server or a cluster of servers. The clustered environment starts life as a set of single servers that are clustered together using the Lotus Domino clustering services.

Single server

A single server topology looks similar to the following diagram:

This deployment model is very straight forward and can provide the full set of capabilities for the Lotus Quickr product, assuming that no external LDAP services are used. If an external LDAP server is to be leveraged, then the single server would have a connection to that system.

The single server setup can effectively serve a wide range of purposes from development and test systems, to production deployments. The key consideration with a production deployment is that it does not provide any failover capabilities. However, depending on the business requirements this might be acceptable.

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