When planning a cluster, it is important to consider the performance and ability of your hardware. The cluster must have enough CPU power, memory, and disk space to handle the cluster traffic and the number of databases and replicas required.

As you plan your cluster, read the related topics to answer the following questions:

• How many servers will you have in the cluster?
• How many replicas will you have and where will they reside?
• How will databases be distributed across servers to balance work load most effectively?

  Note: Managing and monitoring the cluster helps with workload balancing.

• Will your cluster traffic need a private LAN?
• Do you want to create your cluster over a wide area network?
• Do you want to use fault recovery?

Related concepts
Determining how many Domino servers to include in a cluster
Determining the number and placement of replicas in a cluster
Distributing databases in a cluster
Determining whether to create a private LAN for your cluster
Clustering over a wide area network
Managing a cluster

Related tasks
Fault recovery in a cluster