Joining Two Clusters

[ralph]

Does anyone have any experience joining two clusters together?
Are there any how-to notes?

Ralph

[VinceWhirlwind]

The extension scheme would have to be compatible.
 
By "join", you could either create a couple of IP trunks joining them, or you could take all the MCDs out of one cluster and add them to the other.

[acejavelin]

To make one big cluster, you would have to remove the NE's one at a time from the old cluster, and bring them into the existing cluster... You can make 2 clusters accessible to each other using PNI, haven't done it and it was just skimmed in the advanced class. Big stuff like this, I would involve sales engineering, tech support, and possibly Mitel Professional Services.

[ralph]

Here's a How-To from Mitel on how to join two clusters:

Existing Cluster A: Ottawa, London, Paris, Amsterdam
Existing Cluster B: Toronto and Montreal

Step 1: Verify that both clusters contain unique numbering plan


Step 2: Change the Cluster name in the Cluster B Cluster Element form to the same

Cluster name that is in Cluster A. Make sure that they match exactly (Upper/Lower

Case)


Step 3: Assign the elements from Cluster B into the Network Element form and the

Cluster Element form in 1 of Cluster A's controllers, i.e. Ottawa


Step 4: Open up the System Options form in all of Cluster B controllers and

disable System Data Synchronization - Save and re-enable.


Step 5: From Cluster A - i.e. Ottawa Controller open up the Network Element form,

select one of the new controllers and Start Sharing.


Step 6: Once the initial sync is complete, then you can sync other forms , basic

will be Users, and Hosted services in order to merge the RDN's

Looks like it might be easier than I thought.

Ralph