[cisco-voip] Disaster Recovery site

[Craig Staffin]

Scott,
Honestly most business I deal with have moved away from DR and moved to a
business continuity plan.  Although it sounds the same DR typically means
restoring from backup with an acceptable window of downtime.  However a
Business continuity plan is more of a Warm or Hot standby type environment.

With that being said CCM, Unity and IPCC all support a failover type
situation that would serve you far better than trying to restore from a
backup.

I can tell you that restoring CM from a backup takes a few hours minimum so
you are looking at a long day to even think about getting just the phone
system up and functioning.

For the price take a look at getting the HA licenses for Unity and IPCC.  CM
would just be another node license

Craig

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Scott Voll <svoll.voip at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have CM / UCCx / etc all housed here.  we are working on a DR plan.  I
> have MCS servers that I'm planning on housing at a remote site where the ISP
> will relocate MAN services in the case of a Disaster (fire is the worst
> case)  my plan is to Backup to storage at this DR site so in the case of a
> fire I would just drive to the DR site and restore the backup.
>
> All sounds great, but how do you install the CM cluster(UCCx, Unity, CER
> etc).  Do I have to buy new licensing or not?  I can't remember if I can
> install CM second node without the license file? in the case of the disaster
> (fire) am I going to be stuck waiting on cisco licensing?
>
> What are others doing?  Should I be rethinking DR?
>
> Thanks
>
> Scott
>
> **DR = Disaster recovery
>
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