Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Installation Guide

SQL Server

One of the following:

• SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine Service Pack 2 (included 

with MeetingPlace Web)

• SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2

• SQL Server 7 Service Pack 3

• This is the last release of MeetingPlace Web that will support 

SQL Server 7. Service packs are available at:

www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads 

• SQL Server Desktop Engine imposes a performance limit of 

eight simultaneous connections. This limitation will hamper 
the performance of MeetingPlace systems, particularly 
production systems, consider the use of a fully licensed SQL 
Server.

• If a full version of SQL Server will reside on the same 

machine as MeetingPlace Web, that SQL Server should be 
configured to use no more than 80 MB of memory. Consult 
with your MeetingPlace Web support representative for more 
information.

Audio conversion 
(optional)

Third-party audio server (for conversion of audio files into 
supported MeetingPlace formats)

• RealServer (version 7 or 8)

• Windows Media Server (version 4)

A third-party audio server is not required to convert audio 

flies into WAV format.

MeetingPlace load 
balancing (optional)

• All participating MeetingPlace Web servers in the same 

internal cluster must point to the same MeetingPlace server.

• All participating MeetingPlace Web servers in the same 

external cluster must point to the same MeetingPlace server.

• All participating MeetingPlace Web servers in an internal 

cluster must share the same SQL Server database.

• All participating MeetingPlace Web servers in an external 

cluster must share the same SQL Server database.

Recommended configuration is two SQL Server 

databases, one for the internal cluster and one for the external 
cluster. Because MeetingPlace does not support the use of only 
one SQL Server database (either internal or external), this is not 
recommended.