Best plan?

Hello...
I live in an area where my cell service is very poor at home, so I am looking to Skype to make calls when I'm home.
Mostly, I will probably be using my iPhone to make Skype calls when connected to WiFi.  However, I am considering getting one of the Skype ready phones as well, so that everyone in the home can make calls when needed.   If possible, I would like to have a phone number associated with the account as well.
I will only be making domestic calls (United States), and most often I would probably be receiving calls, not making them myself.
With that info... what service should I be signing up for?   I see Premium... but does that come with a phone number?  Any suggestions are appreciated...
Charlie

Originally Posted by kjhurni
This is just my opinion, of course, but:
If you don't want to have to migrate your NSS data and keep the same server names/IP/s and cluster load scripts, then I believe a Rolling Cluster Upgrade is a good way to go.
If you look in my signature, there's a link to my OES2 guides. Somewhere there is one that I did for our Rolling Cluster Upgrade.
If all you have is NSS and iPrint, then you only need to use the miggui (migration utility) for iPrint--or so I think (I do have to followup on this one as I vaguely recall I asked this a while back and there may have been a way to do this without migrating stuff again).
But your NSS data will simply "re-mount" on the OES11 nodes and you'll be fine (so that's why I like the rolling cluster upgrades).
Let me double-check on the OES2 -> OES11 cluster option with iPrint.
--Kevin
Thank you Kevin for your answer.
Finally, I think Im going to proceed using transfer ID on my servers that Im only using NSS over NCS (I only have two machines with one NSS volume)
because it seems that its a good option. I would like to keep old IPs from all the servers, cluster and resources if possible. So, testing this
migration on my test environment it seems that it works fine:
- I use miggui for transfer id between all the machines: physical -> physical and virtual -> virtual. eDirectory assumes new hostname, IP, etc.
the only task "out of the box" is that I have to delete the cluster and regenerate (reconfigure NCS on the new servers) but its pretty easy. This way
I have the two old ips from the older machines and all the ips from the cluster and the cluster resources also. I think that its the best plan.
For the other two machines that has 4 nss volumes and iPrint I must think about a plan. But with those, Im going to proceed this way. I hope
I have chosen a good plan!
thank you so much all for your answers / advices

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