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Unity Failover on an ICS

tmaurello_2
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According to the Unity docs, failover is not supported on the ICS SPEs. Does anyone know why? If Exchange is off-box, why can't we go to SQL 2000 on two SPEs and configure failover?

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lindborg
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Pinged the ICS folks about this and here's the official stance on why failover isn't supported on that platform:

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Unity Failover is not available for ICS Unity as we have not productized it on an SPE for the ICS-7750. To date, we have had very little customer interest on Unity Failover within the ICS-7750 chassis, but we like to hear from you as you run into opportunities. A few other factors on why ICBU choose not to support Unity Failover;

Added COGS as Unity Failover must utilize SQL2000 rather than MSDE.

6 universal slots within an ICS chassis, 2 Unity blades would burn 2 of them.

Considerable Engineering testing effort would be required & we don't see enough demand to justify it.

Lack of RAID support on the SPE.

FYI, Unity Failover loaded on external severs is supported with the ICS.

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lindborg
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Pinged the ICS folks about this and here's the official stance on why failover isn't supported on that platform:

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Unity Failover is not available for ICS Unity as we have not productized it on an SPE for the ICS-7750. To date, we have had very little customer interest on Unity Failover within the ICS-7750 chassis, but we like to hear from you as you run into opportunities. A few other factors on why ICBU choose not to support Unity Failover;

Added COGS as Unity Failover must utilize SQL2000 rather than MSDE.

6 universal slots within an ICS chassis, 2 Unity blades would burn 2 of them.

Considerable Engineering testing effort would be required & we don't see enough demand to justify it.

Lack of RAID support on the SPE.

FYI, Unity Failover loaded on external severs is supported with the ICS.

Thanks Jeff.

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