[cisco-voip] Disaster Recovery site

[Scott Voll]

I do understand that, but if the MDF goes up in flames I'm still going to
end up having to rebuild the whole cluster because the 1st node is here.

my Unity is Unified Messenging with Exchange 2007 in the back end.  my
understanding is that Unity HA is not supported over the MAN?

Scott

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Craig Staffin <craig at staffin.org> wrote:

> 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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