[cisco-voip] CUCM 8.6 hardware

[Matthew Saskin]

Depends on your discount, whether you purchase bare-metal from Cisco or
direct from HP/IBM, etc.  You've also got to factor in VMware costs plus
added operational complexity for UCS.  That said, ongoing operational costs
(eg; smartnet) are much lower for UCS than for bare-metal servers (and
on-par with direct manufacturer support for HP/IBM hardware)

That said, I'm a huge proponent of deploying on UCS, b or c-series as
appropriate.  Of the 20-30 designs I've put together for customers over the
past 12-18 months (ranging from <500 phones to 10K+ phones and 1K+ UCCE
agents) that actually became deployed projects, all but 1 are deployed on
UCS with an exception for a customer that has a rigorous hardware
qualification process and won't qualify UCS for use in their data centers.

-matthew

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:33 PM, <John.VanLaecke at ghd.com> wrote:

> The C Class UCS server is cheaper than the bare metal box.
>
>
>
>  From: Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> To: Erick Wellnitz <
> ewellnitzvoip at gmail.com> Cc: cisco-voip <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net> Date: 18/01/2012
> 07:16 AM Subject:
> Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM 8.6 hardware
> Sent by: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> ------------------------------
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>
>
> Ah - well, supported and sold are two different things I guess.
>
> The supported platforms will help if you have the platforms already, but
> not if you are looking to buy new. I do recall quite a few of them being
> EOL'ed, especially the H series, but you'd have to check the price list and
> your account team for availability.
>
> There is always the SWONLY option (which is much cheaper). As far as I
> know, they are MCS equivalents so they are supported.
>
> Lelio
>
>
> ---
> Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
> Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
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>
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> *From: *"Erick Wellnitz" <ewellnitzvoip at gmail.com>*
> To: *"Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>*
> Cc: *"cisco-voip" <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>*
> Sent: *Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:08:01 PM*
> Subject: *Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM 8.6 hardware
>
> I'm getting conflicting information from someone at Cisco is all.
> They told me they aren't selling MCS servers any longer.
>
>
> On 1/17/12, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> > did it not provide the answers you were looking for? is it not up to
> date?
> >
> > ---
> > Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
> > Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
> > (519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (ANNU)
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Cooking with unix is easy. You just sed it and forget it.
> > - LFJ (with apologies to Mr. Popeil)
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Erick Wellnitz" <ewellnitzvoip at gmail.com>
> > To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
> > Cc: "cisco-voip" <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:46:32 PM
> > Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM 8.6 hardware
> >
> > I've spent more time looking at that document than I care to think about.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/17/12, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> >> Pretty sure they are. Here are some ref docs
> >>
> >>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6790/ps5748/ps378/prod_brochure0900aecd8062a4f9.html
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
> >> Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
> >> (519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (ANNU)
> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> Cooking with unix is easy. You just sed it and forget it.
> >> - LFJ (with apologies to Mr. Popeil)
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Erick Wellnitz" <ewellnitzvoip at gmail.com>
> >> To: "cisco-voip" <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:30:38 PM
> >> Subject: [cisco-voip] CUCM 8.6 hardware
> >>
> >> Quick question as I think I've gone and confused myself.
> >>
> >> Are tehre still options wit hCM 8.6 for non-virtualized environments?
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