[cisco-voip] Hardware Re-purposing to replace EOL

[Mike King]

Any comments?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Mike King <me at mpking.com> wrote:

> We're building a new building,  and we want to put a SUB in it.
>
> A little background.
>
> We're on 7.1.3, but we have UCSS so we can upgrade to anything we want.
> We have a brand new 7845 thats our PUB.  We have two SUBs right now, that
> are 7825H2 (Which go end of Support June 2nd 2012).
> The PUB and SUB are in one building, and the other SUB is another building.
> We also have 2 Emergency Responders (CER) on 7825I4.
> We own a UCS cluster, and have two Cisco SKU UCS-B200M2-VCS1 that we are
> about to order tomorrow.  (The final destination for this UCS cluster is the
> new building we're building)
> We also have a HA Unity Connection cluster, and a UCCX cluster (one half
> will exist in the UCS cluster).
>
> Our major concern is the 7825H2's that will go EOL next year.
>
> If one of the CER was virtualized, is it possible to re-use the 7825I4
> server as a SUB?   I know that at one point, the servers were VERY specific
> to what software they could run.
>
> Our thought process is to:
> PUB on UCS blade 1, SUB on UCS blade 2, UCCX on UCS Blade 1 (or 2), CER on
> UCS Blade 2 (or 1)
> 7845 becomes a SUB to replace one 7825H2
> 7825I4 becomes SUB to replace other 7825H2
>
> Unity Connection would remain the same, and the other half of the UCCX
> cluster would stay on it's server.
>
> So can the 7825I4 be a SUB?
> Is there a different plan that might be better?
>
> Mike
>
>
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