[cisco-voip] Cisco MCS vs UCS Servers

[James Buchanan]

I don't know about the EOL, but these servers have a ton of horsepower.
Go to www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized to get more details. 

 

It seems that the best positioning of this is either when you'll have a
significant number of 7835 or 7845 servers. Here's an example. I had a
customer wanting to add Unity Connection for around 5000 users. So, a
7845 would be in order, at $24000 list price. The UCS C-series came in
at $23000 list plus some support stuff and VMWare license which put it
at around $25,000 list. The difference? The C-series could run not just
the Unity Connection but can run UCM as well on that box. It turned out
to be a good deal. Now, eventually they'll buy another C-series for full
redundancy, but when considering the 7845 versus the C-series, the
C-series made more sense. 

 

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CCIE #25863, Voice



 

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[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
george.hendrix at l-3com.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 8:41 AM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: [cisco-voip] Cisco MCS vs UCS Servers

 

Hi everyone, 

 

  I noticed Cisco has the new UCS C and B series servers.  Does anyone
have any thoughts as to whether these are the way to go or not?  Do they
perform better than the MCS H or I series?  Also since these are out
now, does anyone know if there are plans to put the remainder of the MCS
servers EOL?  BTW, this would be for a new CUCM 8 installation.

 

Thanks,

Bill Hendrix  

 

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