[cisco-voip] Cisco UC 7.x products on AMD Powered ESXi Server

[Stephen Welsh]

Personally I'd be suprised if the later versions of UCM would work on an AMD CPU given there increased detection and integration with VMWare and it's configuration. One component that I know would not work is Cisco Unified Applications Environment (CUAE) as it states it needs a timer only implimented on Intel CPU's, but then that's not a typical lab component ;)

I ran ESXi on a white box until just last week, the two restrictions I found were the NIC card and Hard Drive controller. I had to buy a 'listed' Intel Gig card and I could not use the raid function of the on-board HD controller, so I just had multiple 1Tb HD's as their own datastore, this was fine until one of them died...

So I decided to bite the bullet and buy a DL380G5 with 2xQuad core CPU's and 8Gb RAM, it was a great deal at £900, and including the cost of some new HD's (5x500Gb) it came in at £1500.

It is a lot of money, but well worth it, and having iLO on your lab set-up is great

Also, ESXi's free license used to only enable 1 physical CPU, but with ESXi 4.1 it's unlimited so I now have 8 CPU cores ;)

Stephen

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From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of matthew at ciscovoiceguru.com [matthew at ciscovoiceguru.com]
Sent: 09 February 2011 18:59
To: mklukas at gmail.com
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Cisco UC 7.x products on AMD Powered ESXi Server

Hey Mr. Klukas! Long time no see!

If you're looking to build a whitebox ESXi server, check out Ken Snyder's blog post below:
http://www.kensnyder.net/2009/11/vmware-esxi-40-whitebox-server.html

Building an ESXi server can almost be more of a headache than just buying a low-end approved ESXi server that you KNOW will run ESXi without issues from the start.

If I had $2000 to dump on a VMware server, I think that's what I'd do.

Matthew Berry, CCIE #26721

Email: matthew at ciscovoiceguru.com<mailto:matthew at ciscovoiceguru.com>
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On Feb 9, 2011, at 1:56 PM, mklukas at gmail.com<mailto:mklukas at gmail.com> wrote:

Hey All,

Just curious if anyone has experience running Cisco's UC products (version 7.x) in VM running on top of AMD hardware? I did some searching and couldn't find much of any information on this topic, I don't expect it would make much if any difference so long as the hardware is compatible with ESXi but I thought I'd see if anyone had any first-hand experience. This would be for a Lab scenario only.

Regards
Matt Klukas

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