[cisco-voip] C-series servers

[Jim McBurnett]

Thanks, Jim

Please excuse the typos sent from my wireless handheld

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Wilusz (miwilusz) [miwilusz at cisco.com]
Received: Saturday, 26 Feb 2011, 6:32pm
To: Matthew Saskin [msaskin at gmail.com]; Ed Leatherman [ealeatherman at gmail.com]
CC: Cisco VOIP [cisco-voip at puck.nether.net]
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] C-series servers

Note:  UCS C-series management support was added to UCS Manager v1.4(1).

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/release/notes/OL_24086.html#wp56822

-mike

From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Saskin
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 6:11 PM
To: Ed Leatherman
Cc: Cisco VOIP
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] C-series servers

Ed - C series servers can only be managed separately, no UCS manager.

For what it's worth, I've got clients ranging from 2 x UCS C210's in a small environment (CUCM + UCXN) to ones with multiple B-series chassis running large CUCM + UCCE deployments.  All are happy, and none have experienced any support issues.  In fact, one has turned UCS into their de facto blade hardware, displacing HP.  It's a stable platform, and for most new deployments, hard to cost justify still using MCS servers.  As a point of reference (based on list price), a C210 is only a touch more expensive when you include VMware licensing than an MCS-7845, however you can run 2-4 apps instead of 1.  If you look at the maintenance costs, UC Support/smartnet on a UCS C210 costs about 30-50% of what it costs on an MCS-7845, which is another compelling reason.  Reduce server count by 50%+ and reduce ongoing maintenance by 50%+ per chassis = big-time savings.

To my understanding there is a single TAC support team, at least for RTP, that is responsible for most/all UC on UCS tickets, regardless of what component they are related to; UCS, Nexus, or UC Apps - this helps to keep the ball in one court if/when it comes down to support issues.  As long as everything is deployed per the UC on UCS guidelines, all should be well.

Matthew Saskin
msaskin at gmail.com<mailto:msaskin at gmail.com>
203-253-9571


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com<mailto:ealeatherman at gmail.com>> wrote:
Thats basically what we're planning, except CER instead of CM. Nice.

Are you using UCS Manager for these servers or are they manageable individually?

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Carter, Bill <bcarter at sentinel.com<mailto:bcarter at sentinel.com>> wrote:
> We are implementing this now. Two C-Series servers. Server 1 has
> UCM-Publisher, UCxN, UCCX, Server 2 has UCM-Subscriber, UCxN, UCCX.
>
> Works really well. Also found significant performance improvement when
> doing upgrades...Fast!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net>
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net>] On Behalf Of Matthew
> Loraditch
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 3:24 PM
> To: Ed Leatherman; Cisco VOIP
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] C-series servers
>
> Well I've got a C200M2 on order for someone. Not sure that I'll be able
> to give you much helpful reaction given my install timeline length but
> if you still need info once I've got her up and running I'll be glad to
> give some.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net>] On Behalf Of Ed Leatherman
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 4:19 PM
> To: Cisco VOIP
> Subject: [cisco-voip] C-series servers
>
> Anyone deployed or running any UC apps on the UCS C210 servers? Any
> thoughts or opinions? Do you like the hardware better than a HP or IBM?
> Has running on VMWare caused any support headaches?
>
> I'm planning to migrate Unity Connection to it and also looking at this
> as an option for UCCX as our current hardware is EOL soon. Since it
> would be virtualized i can use the server that will have the connection
> VM to also host one of the UCCX nodes, which will help out price-wise.
>
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