What is needed for growth and stability?

Suppose you are considering adding to your existing Sametime server architecture, deploying more features, or perhaps your current Sametime environment is experiencing some load-based issues due to the server sizing being too small. Or what if you now have a requirement for clustering or moving stand-alone servers to virtual machines? Either of these scenarios could occur or you could also be asked to add third-party software to your Sametime environment. We will now examine the following:

• Testing of existing tools and plugins

• Clustering

• Virtualization

Testing of existing tools and plugins

If your environment already has Sametime in place, then it is possible you already have systems on the Sametime server or clients that will need to be tested and validated against the new Sametime 8.5.2 environment. Many third-party tools are written using the published Sametime APIs and these have changed significantly in Sametime 8.5, and again in Sametime 8.5.1. Testing...