Dmas - Polycom RealPresence DMA 7000 System Operation Manual

2 Determine 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.
3 Create 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
Version Supercluster
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
Records for the Polycom RealPresence DMA
Superclustering is not supported in Maximum security mode. See
Maximum Security
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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