[cisco-voip] UC on UCS - platform selection: quantity vs quality

[Terry Oakley]

We are just starting to look at upgrading from HP hardware to UC on UCS so will forward our supports ‘recommendations’ once they arrive.   Currently they are just getting the stats together but should have something in 2 weeks but am curious to see how they match up to your supports recommendations.

Terry


Terry Oakley
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From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Lelio Fulgenzi
Sent: December-10-12 7:55 AM
To: cisco-voip
Subject: [cisco-voip] UC on UCS - platform selection: quantity vs quality


I had some interesting feedback from my SE after he discussed our UC on UCS requirements with his support network. Basically, the feedback was, rather than two UCS C260s, I should get four UCS 240s. This was to provide maximum hardware/software redundancy and maximum performance.

While I understand the additional hardware/software redundancy, I'm not 100% convinced about the maximum performance. I mean we read through the requirements on the wiki, ensured we had the required CPUs for each application, and there was quite a bit of harddisk, cpu and memory to spare. I'd rather minimize the amount of time managing the hardware and also reduce costs as much as possible.

I understand the C240s are the new M3 specs, and the C260s are the older M2 specs, but I'm guessing those too will be updated soon.

What sort of feedback are others getting who are investigating UC on UCS chasis servers?



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