UC Releases OCS R2 Site Resiliency White paper

Published 28 July 09 11:51 AM | EEC 

Earlier this year the Office Communications Group (OCG) approached the EEC and our Partners (HP, F5 and Shunra) to help them build an environment where they could perform the necessary testing to create this much needed white paper. This was a challenging project, but was completed because of the wonderful collaboration amongst the teams from each company.

 

Here’s an overview of the white paper:

 

This white paper describes a site resiliency solution for Office Communications Server 2007 R2. The solution includes an Enterprise pool that spans two geographically separate sites. The solution provides a failover mechanism between the two sites to ensure that Office Communications Server functionality such as instant messaging, presence, and conferencing remains available even if one of the sites becomes unavailable.

This white paper is divided into three main sections:

·         The Solution section provides an overview of the tested and supported site resiliency solution described in this paper.

·         The Test Methodology section describes the testing topology, expected behavior, and test results.

·         The Findings and Recommendations section provides practical guidance for deploying your own failover solution.

 

 

You can download the white paper here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c930febb-3a44-4bf3-969d-1c52675a7063

 

Thanks to all those that participated.

 

Kevin Engman

Product Manager - EEC

Comments

# Kyle Flaherty said on July 30, 2009 4:07 PM:

Kevin, thanks for access to the white paper, came up in my searches for resiliency testing.

Curious as to the in-scope workloads and why those were chosen specifically and if they were weighted in any way to reflect network traffic percentages?

Thanks again for making this available.

Kyle

P.S. Not sure if it is possible, but would love to do an interview with you for our blog, seems to be a good match in terms of the folks reading.

# Sasa Juratovic said on August 1, 2009 4:42 PM:

In-scope workloads came as a direct result of customer requirements. We have interviewed number of customers/partners during planning phase and based on their feedback we’ve ended up with workloads we’ve tested.

Sasa Juratovic,

Senior Program Manager - OCG

# Kyle Flaherty said on August 4, 2009 4:40 PM:

Thanks for the input Sasa, much appreciated.

/kff

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