Hi Christopher,
One Media server in Dev is the norm and like a Bryan said having more is over kill. Dev License only allow 30 external call ports and 30 media server point, so a second server isn't needed.
As for upgrading in production, Media servers can be on higher version than the CIC servers can. This means you can take one Media server out of use to upgrade while your other media servers are handling the calls. Likewise you can do this with ASR and remote content servers.
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Scott Williams
Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-04-2021 08:34
From: Christopher Becker
Subject: single media server in Dev with CIC switchover pair
I am currently adding a second CIC to my dev environment and was planning to add a second media server as well, however, there is a licensing cost that was not anticipated. I was told that it is normal to have a CIC pair using a single media server in Dev but i have not heard this before. Does anyone have any experience/gotchas they would want to share and is this the 'norm'?
As always any feedback is greatly appreciated.
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Christopher Becker
State of Michigan - Oakland County - WRC
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