Cisco CallManager and Unity min licences and Config Tool

[EllaMonroe]

I am looking at installing a CM to replace a small aging PBX. There are only 5 lines in the setup (its real small but the owner of the house wants 7960's all over his house). This site is not linked to any other branch, so no WAN to consider. This will be housed in a cabinet in a controlled enviroment so the servers must be rack mountable. This pretty much leaves me with thw NCS 7825 series for the CM and Unity VM (No Unified Messaging as no in house MS Exchange server)
For this site I do not require 50 VM boxes but rather a smaller number like 10.

This is my question. I cannot seem to configure Unity for Under 50 VM boxes... Is this possible? The project can allot nice things but not if it means spends 8k+- on something we are not going to use it.

I cant seem to configure, using Cisco's Config tool an Unity server without selecting something from 'Unity Bundle Options'. The smallest one there is UNITYV4-50USR for 5200$ CAD.

I suppose Cisco doesn't sell too many Unity servers for 5 VM boxes, huh?

Thank you

 

[cobac]

Have you looked into going with CM Express and Unity Express? Everything would be housed on a router without the need for extra servers.

 

[EllaMonroe]

Really? I did not know I can run a full blown CallManager with Unity Express, say on an 2821 or something... Is that so? Cool I'll look into it. Thanks

 

[cobac]

Well it is actually Call Manager "Express" and Unity "Express" is a module that plugs in that will give you just voicemail.

If you wanted the full Call Manager version and/or unified messaging you would have to go with the server based models.

I heard the "express" version compares to "Key" phone systems vs full blown PBX systems. Sounds like this might work out well for your customer. Here is some bundle information from cisco:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns339/ns395/ns359/ns331/netbr09186a0080201ec8.html