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Avaya Aura® Session Manager
Avaya Aura® System Manager
Avaya Aura® Conferencing components
Feature servers and access elements
Users can connect to the conference using audio and/or video by way of any of the PBX clients, by way of Audio Video in Collaboration Agent embedded in Collaboration Agent, or by way of the Avaya Aura® Conferencing mobile clients. Additionally, users can join Web collaboration using the Collaboration Agent interface and other Unified Communications (UC) clients.
Administrators can manage the Avaya Aura® Conferencing components and users using the Avaya Aura® System Manager, the Element Manager, and Provisioning interfaces. In addition, administrators can bulk provision users by way of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
Administrators can deploy the Avaya Aura® Conferencing for Avaya Aura® solution on bare metal servers. A bare metal environment refers to the installation of a server directly on to hardware rather than within the host operating system. Alternatively, the Avaya Aura® Conferencing for Avaya Aura® solution supports virtualization through VMWare.
This solution is available for all deployment models and so is suited to small to medium (SMB), medium, and large enterprises.
The sample configuration, documented here, is for a large enterprise.
Large simplex
Large with redundancy
A second server
An ADC, which provides load-balancing
Additionally, customers have the option of expanding their system to support up to 30,000 users, running 3000 concurrent sessions, by adding additional servers. This expansion can continue up to a maximum of 150,000 users.
Avaya recommends the following hardware for an Avaya Aura® Conferencing solution in a large enterprise.
Server | Chassis type | CPU | Memory | RAID | NIC | Applications |
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HP ProLiant DL360 G9 | 1U |
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4x8=32 | 4x300 (RAID10) (600 MB) |
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Core Server
Avaya Aura® Media Server and Web Conferencing server (WCS) when deployed without recording Hosting Avaya Aura® Media Serverwhen deployed without recording1 Hosting WCS Flash Media Gateway for Audio/Video in Collaboration Agent Large Document Conversion Server (DCS) Collaboration Agent (CA) |
HP ProLiant DL360 G9 + Disk Kit | 1U |
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4x8=32 |
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Avaya Aura® Media Server and Web Conferencing server (WCS) when deployed with recording
Hosting Avaya Aura® Media Serverwhen deployed with recording |
HP ProLiant DL360 G9 | 1U |
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4x8=32 | 2x300 (RAID1) (300 MB) |
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Cascading server |
The Avaya Aura® Conferencing solution for large enterprises is available for deployments that use the Avaya Aura® Public Branch eXchange (PBX). The Avaya Aura® PBX stack includes staging and management software such as System Platform and System Manager.
The Avaya Aura® Conferencing solution for large enterprises is also available for deployments that do not use the Avaya Aura® PBX. Deployments that use an alternative PBX are typically called Turnkey deployments. Once installed, the Avaya Aura® Conferencing software behaves in the same way in Avaya Aura® and Turnkey environments.
For more information on Turnkey deployments, see Overview and Specification for Turnkey, which is available from https://support.avaya.com/.
The Avaya Aura® Conferencing solution for large enterprises is suitable for bare metal environments and also for virtual environments. A ‘bare metal’ environment refers to the installation of a server directly on to hardware rather than within the host operating system. A virtual environment refers to the concealment of the physical characteristics of a computing platform. The virtual environment is enabled by way of VMWare.