Prerequisite
This chapter provides a high-level overview of the planning that must be done prior to acquiring and activating licenses for applications and management components running on HCS. This plan covers:
- Identifying licenses that must be ordered for HCS
- Planning for other components or pieces that are not supported by Cisco Prime License Manager
- Determining the costs of licensing, and how those costs impact decision-making
License planning involves the following steps:
- Determine data center infrastructure licenses.
- Determine data center storage licenses.
- Determine VMware licenses.
- Determine UC Application licenses.
- Determine HCS for Contact Center licenses.
- Determine Third Party software licenses.
- Determine HCS Management licenses.
- Determine Cisco Expressway licenses.
- Determine Rich Media Session licenses.
- Determine Cisco Jabber Guest Server licenses.
- License activation considerations.
For more information on Licensing for Cisco HCS, see Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution Release 12.5 License Management