Best way to build a large 2 server unity system?

[admin_2]

I have a customer that needs 4000 mailboxes, but has<br>too much traffic volume to put all of them on one Unity VM<br>server. So, we sold them two VM servers, each with 48<br>ports. We would like to build one virtual system if that<br>is possible (ie. calls spread across the servers but serving<br>all users). <br><br>Can we put all the message store on one server, and<br> use the other one just for the 48 ports of access?<br>Do we have to split the users across separate servers<br> like we did with 2.4.6?<br>Any suggestions? <br><br>

[#2]

You won't be able to build one great giant Unity, but you could network the Unity's together. What this will give you is the ability for callers to auto-attendant (release) transfer to subscribers on either Unity server regardless of which server they were in.

Subscribers will still have a "home" server and they will have to call that particular server to retrieve messages. For more information on networking Unity's together, check out Jeff's monster networking doc...

http://www.answermonkey.net/General_tools.htm

Steve Olivier
Software Engineer
Cisco Systems