[cisco-voip] UC on UCS auto failover in hardware

[Jason Aarons (AM)]

Cisco is listening and just announced support for more VMware features, the DocWiki and other info was recently updated around these changes. A updated UC on UCS SRND is under development by Cisco.

Planning and Designing a Virtualized Unified Communications Solution
ftp://ddftp.us.didata.com/Convergence/CiscoLive2011/contents/papers/BRKUCC-2782.pdf

http://www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized

Examples
VMwareHA Yes
ResizeVM Partial
VMware vMotion Yes
VMware DRS No
NFS and iSCSI are supported, but require minimum 10Gbps and dedicated NIC for network storage access


From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Eric Butcher
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:17 PM
To: ciscozest; cisco-voip mailinglist
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] UC on UCS auto failover in hardware


I think what you're describing is VMotion and is very much not supported.  (Moving an active VM on a blade that is having trouble to another blade in production)

I do believe you can shut down the VM completely, copy it to a new blade, and turn it back up.

Eric Butcher | CDW Professional Services
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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:[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net]> On Behalf Of ciscozest
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 6:51 AM
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Subject: [cisco-voip] UC on UCS auto failover in hardware

I am going to deploy UC on UCS and I am aware that we can move the UC application from one blade server to other slot or UCS chassis easily. However the question is how much redundancy/failover can be supported with UC on UCS system.

An example for CallManager; if the Subscriber 1 server is down, all the voice endpoints will failover to the backup CCM server automatically. This is application redundancy and auto failover.
As for hardware ie: blade server /disks are down for any reason, would UCS system be able to auto failover the UC applications into another spare blade server?
As far as I know from reading some doco, we have to manualy dissassociate service profile and reassociate that to the spare blade and then power it ON to achieve the recovery.
Can anyone with UC on UCS experience share this thought?

Thank you,


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