Unity 7 or Unity 5

aamercado · ‎11-12-2008

Currently on UM 4.2 (no failover) and plan to upgrade because we also are upgrading to Exchange 2007 with clustering.

Wonder what folks feel about Unity 7. I prefer 5 cause it's been around longer so believe it is more stable.

what were pros/cons with other folks?

ranpierce · ‎11-12-2008

Unity 7 is basically Unity 5 except a few more features. You will not have a problem there.

the issue is that I think Exchange 2007 clustering is not supported yet but will be in the future.

Randy

ranpierce · ‎11-12-2008

Exchange 2007 clustering is supported on Unity 5

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6789/ps5745/ps2237/product_data_sheet0900aecd805e6e12.html

Randy

ranpierce · ‎11-12-2008

This has been talked about before on this forum.

http://forums.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/NetProf?page=netprof&forum=Unified%20Communications%20and%20Video&topic=Unified%20Communications%20Applications&topicID=.ee835d2&CommCmd=MB%3Fcmd%3Dpass_through%26location%3Doutline%40%5E1%40%40.2cc0bfdd/4#selec...

Randy

john.luth · ‎11-12-2008

Capacity is the biggest factor for us. Unity 5 supports up to 7500 users and 144 ports. Unity 7 is 15000 Users and 200 ports. Unfortunately Unity 7 does not work with Exchange 2007 using CCR (continuous cluster replication) so we have to go with 5 for now and set up an additional server to handle capacity (over 11000 users) until its fixed in 7 (or 8 or whatever version it works with).