Wave goodbye to the maximum 64 GB database size limitation

Ian Raffle  15 December 2011 16:01:17

Depending on your point of view, you may regard one of the enhancements to Domino in the latest 8.5.3 release as fantastic, or neither here nor there. IBM's announcement letter has a one-liner that states:

"Support for applications and mail files exceeding 64 GB logical size."

If you make use of DAOS (Domino Attachment and Object Store), then you probably don't really care, because you've moved attachment storage out of the Domino database, and (hopefully) onto another disk. Coupled with the I/O advantages of correctly configured Transaction Logging your Domino databases are probably running at an optimum level.

On the other hand if you can't make use of DAOS, and archiving or splitting your data isn't an option, you have a single compelling reason to upgrade to 8.5.3. Of course Domino 8.5.3 has lots of other enhancements and performance improvements, which would be a bonus.

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