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

[mklukas at gmail.com]

Thanks for the Feedback Guys,

I did a little more research, and it seems Cisco disabled (whether on
purpose or by accident) the ability to install CUCM/Connection 7.0 on an AMD
powered VM Server, however in 7.1.2 it is supposed to work fine again.

See:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/cisco/nsp/100250
and
http://worldofunifiedcommunications-uc.blogspot.com/2009/07/cucm-712-amd.html

I will likely evaluate the cost of a HP/IBM ESXi supported server over a
whitebox before I make a final decision but I've worked with a couple
white-box machines in the past so I'm aware of some of the
gotchas/challenges and am fairly comfortable going that route.

Regards
Matt Klukas


On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Stephen Welsh
<stephen.welsh at unifiedfx.com>wrote:

>  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
>
>  ------------------------------
> *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
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/CiscoVoiceGuru
> Blog: http://ciscovoiceguru.com
>
>  On Feb 9, 2011, at 1:56 PM, 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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