Ibm sametime deployment planning open mic webcast
- 1. © 2013 IBM Corporation IBM Sametime Deployment Planning Open Mic Webcast May 8, 2013
- 2. 2 | © 2013 IBM Corporation Agenda ■ Sametime Components ■ Common Deployments ■ Virtualization ■ Q&A
- 3. 3 | © 2013 IBM Corporation What does Sametime offer? ■ System Console ■ Sametime Community ■ Sametime Proxy ■ Meeting Server ■ Sametime Media Server
- 4. 4 | © 2013 IBM Corporation Sametime System Console Server ■ The System Console is the core planning server and allows you to setup all of your deployment plans for the various servers that you will install. ■ It organizes server settings, policies, and other Sametime specific configurations for the various servers in a given deployment.
- 5. 5 | © 2013 IBM Corporation Sametime Community Server ■ The backbone of the Sametime environment ■ Provides chat features between clients ■ Prerequisite for many of the other Sametime products
- 6. 6 | © 2013 IBM Corporation Sametime Proxy Server ■ Offers communication for the browser-based chat client, Android client, and iOS client ■ Provides awareness for users in browser-based meetings ■ Delivers the web audio/video plugin to the meeting ■ Can be integrated with products such as iNotes to offer Sametime within that client
- 7. 7 | © 2013 IBM Corporation Sametime Meeting Server ■ Provides a place that users can join to share content with each other through slides, screen shares, and application control. ■ When a Media Manager is installed it can offer audio and video within a meeting room. ■ The Meeting Server replaces the Classic Meeting Server that runs on the Community Server. ■ The Meeting Server is now available directly from within the rich client so there is no longer a requirement to use a web browser to attend a meeting.
- 8. 8 | © 2013 IBM Corporation Sametime Media Server ■ A Sametime Media environment includes the following components (Note: not all are required to be installed) ─ Sametime Media Server, Turn Server, and Bandwidth Manager. ■ The media server includes three components ─ SIP Proxy Registrar, Conference Manager, Packet Switcher ■ All of these components are needed and can be installed onto separate machines or the same machine Note: If you ever wish to cluster the SIP Proxy Registrar or Conference Manger you will want to be sure to install each component as a separate node. ■ The Turn Server is optional; however, if you plan to allow external access or have an intricately set up internal network you will want to install and configure the Turn Server to ensure media will work. ■ The Bandwidth Manager is completely optional and can be installed/configured later, if needed.
- 9. 9 | © 2013 IBM Corporation Additional Components Needed By Sametime ■ DB2 stores information regarding your deployment. DB2 will include data such as meeting rooms, server version information, cluster information, deployment information, etc. ■ LDAP is a directory that stores information for users and will include information about a user's (name, password, email, etc.)
- 10. 10 | © 2013 IBM Corporation LDAP Server ■ In order to take advantage of the new Sametime components and the features they offer, an LDAP server must be configured and available for use.
- 11. 11 | © 2013 IBM Corporation DB2 Server ■ At the core of every install is the DB2 server which stores the databases for our various servers. ■ It contains information ranging from anything like setup and Deployment Plans, to the actual Meeting Server Rooms themselves.
- 12. 12 | © 2013 IBM Corporation Examples of Deployments ■ Internal High Availability (HA) deployment ■ External High Availability (HA) deployment
- 13. 13 | © 2013 IBM Corporation Internal HA Deployment
- 14. 14 | © 2013 IBM Corporation External HA Deployment
- 15. 15 | © 2013 IBM Corporation External HA Deployment In order to allow external connections to the the environment there are two main solutions. ■ First solution: The user needs VPN access to the environment. Note: VPN will not necessarily negate the need for a Turn Server for media to work properly. ■ Second Solution: Components will need publicly available hostnames and the firewall needs to be configured to allow connections to these servers. There is no way to make a distinction in the configuration for internal vs external client access. Therefore, hostnames you give to the Sip Proxy Registrar and Turn Server must resolve in internal and external DNS (Split-Horizon DNS). Additionally, be sure the DNS domains match on hostnames so that SSO can work properly between the various server components.
- 16. 16 | © 2013 IBM Corporation Other Deployments ■ The deployments we discussed are in no way the only deployments available but offer some of our more common scenarios. ■ If additional redundancy is needed additional servers and/or secondary nodes may be installed.
- 17. 17 | © 2013 IBM Corporation Virtualization ■ When planning a VM environment careful consideration should go into what hardware is available. ■ When comparing the system requirements to available resources verify that each individual VM meets or exceeds the minimum resources. ■ In other words if you have a VM host server with 4 gigabytes of memory and 4 cores this will only be able to support one server (or possibly 2 servers) since each server will only receive a subset of those resources.
- 18. 18 | © 2013 IBM Corporation Client Deployment ■ The Sametime Client you will want to have installed is 8.5.2 IFR1 with the security hotfix. ■ The Notes version does not correspond to the Sametime version
- 19. 19 | © 2013 IBM Corporation Field Support Services Can Help! ■ Knowledge Transfer on Sametime Planning for Installation and Configuration ─ New Features ─ Planning and prerequisites ─ Recommended steps for successful installation, steps to migrate from earlier versions of Sametime ─ Setting up and documenting the Sametime policies ─ How to install the new plugins on Sametime Clients ─ Starting at $12,000 (5 days remote) ■ Buddylist Tools for Conversions from Domino Directory to LDAP ─ Viewing and spot checking during the conversion, speeds effort to validate conversion by facilitating checks of a larger sample size quickly and easily directly from the Buddy List Database ─ Restore a users Buddy list via an automated process, removing this burdensome task from your Sametime Administration Team ─ Report on your Buddy list to identify content, groups, external user count to help properly size LDAP and policy requirements ─ Reduce size of vpuserinfo by removing storage content for users that have been deleted from company directory ─ Starting at $4800 (2 days remote) ■ Contact brenda_alvarado@us.ibm.com and fortunc@us.ibm.com for scoping/pricing
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