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

[Daniel]

I'm running our lab environment on AMD CPU's have had a couple of issues,


   - back on older code I had to move the servers to an intel box upgrade
   them then move them back to AMD which then works fine. The install and the
   upgrade would not work on the AMD CPU.
   - On later 7 and now 8 code they work ok for install and upgrade
   - On versions 5-8 the IP Voice Media Stream service does not start.
   Search google for the fix you have to live boot into the OS and add an
   athlon folder to /lib/modules/cm-ipvms


Other than these minor issues it works perfectly fine.



On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:20 AM, mklukas at gmail.com <mklukas at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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