Polycom 7000 manual DMAs

Superclustering

2Determine how you want to organize your sites into territories in order to best distribute responsibilities and workload among the clusters of your supercluster. A number of strategies are possible. For instance, with a five-cluster supercluster, you could adopt one of the following schemes:

Create four territories, assign a primary cluster for each, and assign the fifth cluster as backup for all four.

Create five territories, assign a primary cluster for each, and make each cluster the backup for one of the other territories.

Use some hybrid of the above that best suits your enterprise network’s distribution of sites, users, and traffic.

Keep in mind that only three territories can host conference rooms.

Note: RealPresence Resource Manager integration

If you’ve integrated with a Polycom RealPresence Resource Manager system, site topology data comes from that system and can’t be edited in the RealPresence DMA system. You must create the territories needed in the RealPresence Resource Manager system.

3Create the territories needed, assign functionality responsibilities to the territories, and assign primary and backup clusters to the territories.

Note: Supercluster software versions must match

All the clusters in a supercluster must be running compatible software versions. Patch releases of the same major version will generally be compatible, but major version upgrades will not be compatible. Major version software upgrades of a supercluster take careful planning. See Incompatible Software Version Supercluster Upgrades.

If you’re planning to form a supercluster, we encourage you to upgrade to the latest version before doing so.

Note: Create required DNS records

The host names (virtual and physical) of every cluster in the supercluster must be resolvable by all the other clusters. For a superclustered system, A/AAAA records on your DNS server(s) for each physical host name, physical IP address, and virtual host name are mandatory. See Add Required DNS Records for the Polycom RealPresence DMA System.

Superclustering is not supported in Maximum security mode. See The Consequences of Enabling Maximum Security Mode.

See also:

Supercluster Procedures

DMAs

The DMAs page lets you create, view, and manage a supercluster of Polycom RealPresence DMA systems (see About Superclustering).

If the system you’re logged in to is not (and has not been) part of a supercluster, the list contains only that system. The Join Supercluster command lets you:

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