House of Cheung

Links:

https://www.lotuslive.com/

https://www.lotuslive.com/services/engage

https://www.lotuslive.com/services/meetings

https://www.lotuslive.com/services/events

https://www.lotuslive.com/services/notes

https://www.lotuslive.com/services/inotes

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/notesanddomino/hosted-licensing.html

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.jsp?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/877/ENUSZP09-0057/index.html&InfoType=AN&InfoSubType=CA&InfoDesc=Announcement+Letters&panelurl=index.wss%3Fbuttonpressed%3DDET001PT116%26page%3D1000%26paneltext1%3DDET001PEF011%26user%2Btype%3DEXT&paneltext=Announcement%20letter%20search

Objectives:

Lotus products as online services

No installation on PC/ laptop

Subscription based (monthly, annually, bi-annually)

Provide collaboration services to simplify and improve business interactions with customers, partners and colleagues

Work with people seamlessly inside and outside your organisation

Streamline communications

Leverage and capitalise new technology (today’s network speed, processor capabilities, web 2.0)

Drive down cost

Collaborate across different business units

Leverage people skills (experts) across enterprise / partner system globally

Integration with existing Domino applications

SSL enabled, 64 bit security certificate

There is going to be promotion in 2^nd quarter 09, tbc

API to integrate with Lotus Domino applications (XPages, existing domino apps), LinkedIn, Salesforce.com

LotusLive Engage:

https://www.lotuslive.com/services/engage

Formerly known as Lotus BlueHouse. Features taken from Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr and Lotus Sametime

Consider this as the daddy of the LotusLive offerings

Highlights:

Instant messaging

Web meeting

File sharing

Activities management

Forms, customisable for surveys, feedback etc

Contacts / My Network

Chart building from raw data on the fly

API will be available for developers to connecto to social networking sites such as LinkedIn

API will also allow existing domino applications to integrate with features such as file sharing in LotusLive Engage

You can use Lotus XPages to upload files to LotusLive Engage

Current part numbers (please check price book for latest price), tiered pricing:

Part	Description
D08SJLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE ENGAGE HOST WITH UP TO 14 PARTICIPANTS ANNUAL BILLING FIXED TERM USE ONE YEAR
D08SKLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE ENGAGE HOST WITH UP TO 24 PARTICIPANTS ANNUAL BILLING FIXED TERM USE ONE YEAR
D08SLLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE ENGAGE HOST WITH UP TO 999 PARTICIPANTS ANNUAL BILLING FIXED TERM USE ONE YEAR
D08SMLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE ENGAGE HOST WITH UP TO 14 PARTICIPANTS BILLED MONTHLY AS SPECIFIED, FIXED TERM COMMITMENT OF ONE YEAR
D08SNLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE ENGAGE HOST WITH UP TO 24 PARTICIPANTS BILLED MONTHLY AS SPECIFIED, FIXED TERM COMMITMENT OF ONE YEAR
D08SPLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE ENGAGE HOST WITH UP TO 999 PARTICIPANTS BILLED MONTHLY AS SPECIFIED, FIXED TERM COMMITMENT OF ONE YEAR
D08SQLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE ENGAGE HOST WITH UP TO 14 PARTICIPANTS UPFRONT BILLING FIXED TERM USE TWO YEAR
D08SRLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE ENGAGE HOST WITH UP TO 24 PARTICIPANTS UPFRONT BILLING FIXED TERM USE TWO YEAR
D08SSLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE ENGAGE HOST WITH UP TO 999 PARTICIPANTS UPFRONT BILLING FIXED TERM USE TWO YEAR
D08STLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE ENGAGE HOST WITH UP TO 14 PARTICIPANTS UPFRONT BILLING FIXED TERM USE THREE YEAR
D08SULL	IBM LOTUSLIVE ENGAGE HOST WITH UP TO 24 PARTICIPANTS UPFRONT BILLING FIXED TERM USE THREE YEAR
D08SVLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE ENGAGE HOST WITH UP TO 999 PARTICIPANTS UPFRONT BILLING FIXED TERM USE THREE YEAR

LotusLive Meetings:

https://www.lotuslive.com/services/meetings

Formerly known as Lotus Sametime Unyte Meeting

Online web meeting service

Highlights:

Give presentations over the web

Video conferencing

Voice over IP (VoIP)

Desktop sharing for doing demos

Recording meeting

Document sharing

Current part numbers (please check price book for latest price), tiered pricing:

Part	Description
D08S1LL	IBM LOTUSLIVE MEETINGS HOST WITH UP TO 14 PARTICIPANTS ANNUAL BILLING FIXED TERM USE ONE YEAR
D08S2LL	IBM LOTUSLIVE MEETINGS HOST WITH UP TO 24 PARTICIPANTS ANNUAL BILLING FIXED TERM USE ONE YEAR
D08S3LL	IBM LOTUSLIVE MEETINGS HOST WITH UP TO 14 PARTICIPANTS BILLED MONTHLY AS SPECIFIED, FIXED TERM COMMITMENT OF ONE YEAR
D08S4LL	IBM LOTUSLIVE MEETINGS HOST WITH UP TO 24 PARTICIPANTS BILLED MONTHLY AS SPECIFIED, FIXED TERM COMMITMENT OF ONE YEAR
D08S5LL	IBM LOTUSLIVE MEETINGS HOST WITH UP TO 14 PARTICIPANTS UPFRONT BILLING FIXED TERM USE TWO YEAR
D08S6LL	IBM LOTUSLIVE MEETINGS HOST WITH UP TO 24 PARTICIPANTS UPFRONT BILLING FIXED TERM USE TWO YEAR
D08S7LL	IBM LOTUSLIVE MEETINGS HOST WITH UP TO 14 PARTICIPANTS UPFRONT BILLING FIXED TERM USE THREE YEAR
D08S8LL	IBM LOTUSLIVE MEETINGS HOST WITH UP TO 24 PARTICIPANTS UPFRONT BILLING FIXED TERM USE THREE YEAR
D08SDLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE MEETINGS HOST WITH UP TO 999 PARTICIPANTS ANNUAL BILLING FIXED TERM USE ONE YEAR
D08SELL	IBM LOTUSLIVE MEETINGS HOST WITH UP TO 999 PARTICIPANTS BILLED MONTHLY AS SPECIFIED, FIXED TERM COMMITMENT OF ONE YEAR
D08SFLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE MEETINGS HOST WITH UP TO 999 PARTICIPANTS UPFRONT BILLING FIXED TERM USE TWO YEAR
D08SGLL	IBM LOTUSLIVE MEETINGS HOST WITH UP TO 999 PARTICIPANTS UPFRONT BILLING FIXED TERM USE THREE YEAR

LotusLive Events:

https://www.lotuslive.com/services/events

Formerly known as Lotus Sametime Unyte Events

Online event management service, includes templates to help you send out invitations, registrations, reminder email and follow ups

Highlights:

Includes all the features of LotusLive Meetings

Registration management

Automated email announcements

Invitation templates

Event summary and history

Export registration information for future events

Prices tbc

LotusLive Notes:

https://www.lotuslive.com/services/notes

Online Lotus Notes service

You use Lotus Notes client to access an IBM server for your email

Designed primarily for companies with 1,000 to 10,000 employees

Supported by dedicated IBM Team

Span and virus filtering

Back up and restore services

Highlights:

24x7 Lotus Notes expertise from IBM

1 gb mailbox per user

Email

Calendar

Lotus Quickr Personal Edition with 50mb storage

Enterprise class server, network, storage and firewall in an IBM data center

Current part numbers (please check price book for latest price), tiered pricing:

Part	Description
D06SILL	IBM LOTUS NOTES HOSTED MESSAGING CLUSTERED SERVICES 1GB AUTHORIZED USER INITIAL FIXED TERM USE 12 MONTHS
D06SJLL	IBM LOTUS NOTES HOSTED MESSAGING BASE SERVICES 1 GB AUTHORIZED USER INITIAL FIXED TERM USE 12 MONTHS

Base service provides 99.5% availability

Clustered service provides 99.9% availability

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/notesanddomino/hosted-licensing.html

LotusLive iNotes:

https://www.lotuslive.com/services/inotes

Domino web access / iNotes version of LotusLive Notes

Web based email messaging service

Price tbc

The pricing is per individual user as confirmed by John O'Mara (omaraj@ie.ibm.com) on 7th May 09.

Currently, an organisation can purchase 1 LotusLive Engage authorised user license for this person to utilise the features of LotusLive Engage.

Examples: LotusLive Meeting - D08S1LL (IBM LOTUSLIVE MEETINGS HOST WITH UP TO 14 PARTICIPANTS ANNUAL BILLING FIXED TERM USE ONE YEAR)

This means the license holding user can host a meeting with up to 14 people.

If user requires to host a meeting with more than 14 but less than 25 people than, they would need to purchcase D08S2LL (up to 24 people)

Just a quick note to remind myself and others on Sub-Capacity and Micro-partitioning PVU calculation.

This information is correct 25/6/09, please let me know if any information is incorrect

Pre-req: server tin ware make model, processor model

work out the PVU per core on the physical server

Sub-capacity in virtialised environment (VMware, Virtual Machine):

PVU of each virtual CPU (vCPU) equals PVU of 1 phyical core

if PVU for 1 physical core is 50, the 1 vCPU = 50 PVU

Sub-capacity in LPAR:

PVU based on the number of cores assigned to the LPAR

Sub-capacity in DLAR:

PVU based on the max number of cores used by the software

two DLARs, DLPAR 1 and DLPAR 2

DLPAR 1 assigned 8 cores running WAS

DLPAR 2 assigned 2 cores running DB2

At peak, DLPAR 1 grows to 9 cores and DLPAR 2 reduce to 1 core

Total number of cores to license for WAS = 9

Total number of cores to license for DB2 = 2

Micro-partioning Capped:

License on the PVU of entitled cores (EC), basically the number of cores assigned to the capped micro-partition

Core alocation in increments of 0.01

When working PVU, round the total number of assigned cores to next whole unit:

4 capped micro-partionings running WAS, total cores assigned = 5.2

this will round up to 6, and licensed to PVU of 6 cores

Micro-partitioning Uncapped / Dynamic:

Licensed to the alocated virtual CPU (vCPU)

PVU of each virtual CPU (vCPU) equals PVU of 1 phyical core

if PVU for 1 physical core is 50, the 1 vCPU = 50 PVU

Summary:

for a Dedicated LPAR, the highest number of cores allocated to the LPAR

for a Capped Partition, the highest amount of Entitled Capacity (EC)

for a Uncapped Partitions, the highest amount of VP (Virtual Processor Cores)

for a Shared Processor Pool, the lower of the sum of each partition for a product or the processor core capacity of the shared pool

Aggregate fractional processor cores, apply shared pool capping rules, and round up at the server level to the next whole processor core (lower of the sum of the virtual cores or the server capacity)

When I get asked a "quick question" I expect the person to speak very fast, thus making it a quick question.

Further more, the opening question should be "Can I have a quick answer",to which I will reply with the shortest answer possible, spoken at a tremendous speed.

A quick cheat sheet for Lotus Foundations, this last 2 weeks, I have been getting lots of questions regarding this, so I have put together a cheat sheet.

Please let me know if anything included is fabrication and lies, I will correct.

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Lotus Foundations comes in 2 parts:

Software - Lotus Foundations Start server

Hardware - Lotus Foundations Appliance

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Lotus Foundations Appliance is essentially a IBM SystemX machine, pre-configured with processor, ram, disk (simple swap), and flash memory.

(The flash memory gives you failover assurance, so if in the unlikelihood of the disk failing, you can still boot up the box and connect to network.)

Lotus Foundations Start server, gives you firewall, antivirus, domain controller, file server and much more.

It runs on Linux OS, and its pretty much self configured and self maintained.

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Lotus Foundations Run is a feature of the Foundations Start server, its basically a VMWare server (license is free from VMWare website).

Having a VMWare server facilitates the need to deploy additional software and services of your choice, for example, BES, Domino server for CRM

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Lotus Foundations Branch Office, add-on to Lotus Foundations Start.

It can be deployed onto a Lotus Foundations Appliance or in a virtual machine

It be used to extend an existing Lotus Domino domain, so it can act as a spoke in an enterprise Lotus Domino infrastructure to remote offices.

Lotus Foundations Reach, add-on to Lotus Foundations Start.

Lotus Foundations Reach provides unified communications and collaboration capabilities to Lotus Foundations

This is a Lotus Sametime server running in on Lotus Foundations.

Provides instant messaging, voice over ip (VoIP),  and presence awareness capabilities

This add-on is not compatible with Lotus Foundations Branch Office.

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Other Lotus Foundations add-ons listed below:

 ExtraFax - add-on feature (additional license required), fax converted to email, no more fax number association.

 BaehrWare BusinessPro Advance - document management, expense tracking and reporting, holiday booking tool, time and billing management, contact management

 BaehrWare BusinessPro - sales opportunity management, quote creation, po tracking, invoice creation, time and billing management, product and service catalog, record payment management

 BaehrWare DocuPro - as BusinessPro with document management

 GroupForce - Business management tools: expense tracker, document management, purchase requester, human resources

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Pricing (correct on 11/6/09, please check before quoting customer)

Lotus Foundations Appliance (hardware) sold as Entry or Advance level:

Entry (9234-CNG )
 
x3200 M2 - 9234, Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz/1066MHz FSB, 3MB L2, 2x1GB, 250GB 3.5in SS SATA II, 400W p/s, Tower
 
IBM Price - GBP 1,732.00
 
Advanced (9234-DNG)
 
x3200 M2 - 9234, Intel Xeon Quad X3330 2.66GHz/1333MHz FSB, 6MB L2, 2x2GB, 500GB 3.5in SS SATA II, 400W p/s, Tower
 
IBM Price - GBP 2,252.00

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Software prices (correct on 23/6/09, please check before quoting, base line pricing below)

IBM Lotus Foundations Start server license + sw subscription & support 12 months (D046NLL) - GBP 149.00
 
IBM Lotus Foundations Start authorised user license + sw subscription & support 12 months (D046LLL) - GBP 97.18

Customer will need to buy a server license and the applicable number of authorised user licenses (includes all flavours of the Notes clients)

IBM Lotus Foundations Branch Office server license + sw subscription & support 12 months (D08UELL) - GBP 2152.00

Customer will need to acquire a Notes client (Notes for Messaging, iNotes, etc) for each authorised user, maximum of 500.

IBM Lotus Foundations Reach authorised user license + sw subscription & support 12 months (D0ANPLL) - GBP 45.66

(price is correct on 15/9/09, please check before quoting, base line pricing below)

Lotus Foundations Reach customer must purchase less than or equal to the number of Lotus Foundations Start authorised user licenses.

Lotus Foundations Reach cannot be used with Lotus Branch Office.

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Lotus Foundations Appliance

Lotus Foundations Start v1.1

Lotus Foundations Branch Office

actually, not really admin, but more of "find out how and get it done"

its quite a change, for me its always been more dev than admin, but now, there is no dev, and all admin

its been good learning and requires a different take on problem solving skills

so, devs, get your hands on some admining. I now know more about VMs, OS, than I would have needed to know working as a dev

this of course, is just my opinion

and whats the point to this blog? probably none... I am still getting used to this blogging lark.

why me? why?

I stoped my TSM v6.1 installation mid way yesterday because I didnt have the SAN ready.

What a mistake. I have uninstalled everything, and tried to reinstall, but it always craps out at the db2 instance

Uninstalling everything and attempt to reinstall results in this error:

com.ibm.ac.coi.api.exception.WrappedException: The ANT ant task failed. BaseDir = F:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\_uninst\plan\install\MachinePlan_localhost AntFile = MachinePlan_localhost.xml

BALLS....

Until the past 8 months or so, I have been a Lotus Domino developer, touching on Websphere Portal and Portlet Factory development. My prefer method is go in there, get it done, out! and thats worked pretty well for me, because I am usually fixing someone else's code. but that was my previous life. I am now a "Technical Consultant - IBM Software", which means I have to know everything from Hardware parts (SystemX, SystemI, CPU, PVU, storage), VMWare (ESX, VMWare Center, etc) and IBM Software. I can't just hide in my little yellow / purple bubble any longer. Today I have done two things that are new to me. First - TSM v6.1 install. Second - VMWare Center Install with VMWare license server and also did my usual breaking things.... this time I attempted at tidying up one of our SystemX servers, I uninstalled MSSQL, thinking what could that possibly be used for. Load and behold, VMWare Center thats what. BALLS I have managed to get VMWare Center reinstalled with VMWare License Server, but how much of it will still work? (VMotion? other features that I have never used?) Time to go on a course, I need to know how to fix what I break. Although it might just be about a career too late, ha