I am so sorry I forgot to mention the performance case :
1- Check the DDM the good feature issued with Lotus Notes7
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4089.html2- you can also check the Log files
3- Check the console of each server and if you get any error .
4- Finally, if you are using windows server platform you can ,,,, "Start" ===> Run===type "Perfmon"
Then check the CPU , Memory and the Network utilization .