Unity Failover Per User Licensing

[joshuamarsh]

We are currently running Unified Messaging on Unity 4.04 without failover. I am looking at putting a failover server in place. I have read through the Unity Licensing FAQ and whitepaper, but am unclear whether or not I need to purchase the individual per user licenses (UNITYUM-FOVR-USR, $36 per user). We have 3600 users, so we would be looking at almost $130k in failover user licenses alone. This seems very odd for licenses that would not be used at the same time a primary licenses. Can anyone verify if these individual licenses need to be purchased?

Thank you,

Joshua Marsh

[craulers]

Yes, you need to purchase both the failover server and failover server licenses. Here are the correct part numbers for adding failover after the system has already been purchased.

UNITY-LIC-UPG-40 quantity one system

UNITY-FOVRSVR33-UP quantity # of processors on server

UNITYUM-FOVR-USR quantity 3600 users