[cisco-voip] Cisco MCS vs UCS Servers

[Nick Matthews]

I think they will be the way to go.  Some of the reasons:
-VMware features add a lot to the management flexibility
-Hardware will last longer since you will be able to size more dynamically
-Hardware will be more efficient running multiple applications at once
-Being able to bring in some of the SAN features makes failure scenarios
easier to work around
-One number to call for support is nice
-The budgeting, ROI/TCO, will work out for them quite nicely

Right now there isn't a plan to EOL the MCS servers.  Cisco hasn't gotten
all the features and applications onto UCS, so there are still products
being sold with MCS.  As well, sometimes the scale doesn't justify something
like a B-series or C-series and MCS makes more sense; this reason is going
away fairly quickly though.  Right now Cisco is only OEM'ing IBM servers.
HP are still supported but you can't OEM them through a Cisco SKU/smartnet.

Hope this helps.

-nick

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:41 AM, <george.hendrix at l-3com.com> wrote:

>  Hi everyone,
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>   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.
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> Thanks,
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> Bill Hendrix
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