[cisco-voip] UC on non-Cisco VMware hardware?

[Matthew Loraditch]

Just to be clear, It's 1:1 to CPU cores, not actual CPUs. CPUs would be crazy! :)
VCenter requires vSphere Standard. If you did go with a Cisco UCS server you could use Cisco's vSphere foundation on the low end C220


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From: Madziarczyk, Jonathan [mailto:jmad at cityofevanston.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:56 PM
To: Matthew Loraditch; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: UC on non-Cisco VMware hardware?

This makes me very happy.  I'm searching like crazy to see all the neat things they've done to allow for this.  It's interesting, they seem to "require" a 1:1 ratio for physical and vCPUs, but with the exception of Unity that uses affinity, I don't see how they're enforcing it...short of good-faith.

Also, it looks like while I can use "any" level of VMware, in order to use vCenter (required, I think) I still have to purchase a license of at least vSphere Standard, so the free license is not an option.  Or did I read it wrong?  Not that I would recommend using it that way, but I need to present all the options.

JM



From: Matthew Loraditch [mailto:MLoraditch at heliontechnologies.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:56 AM
To: Madziarczyk, Jonathan; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Subject: RE: UC on non-Cisco VMware hardware?

They have had specs based for a while restricted to HP/IBM, maybe <1 month ago, they now are expanded to specs based for any hardware provider.
The DocWiki is generally THE reference for what is/isn't allowed and that page is exactly what you need to be reading.

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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] On Behalf Of Madziarczyk, Jonathan
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:57 AM
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Subject: [cisco-voip] UC on non-Cisco VMware hardware?

Last I heard (around 8.5) Cisco did not support UC on anything but their hardware for virtualization.  Now I'm reading this:
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/UC_Virtualization_Supported_Hardware#.22Can_I_use_this_server.3F.22
and it looks like that may have changed since I was last in the loop.  Can anyone weigh in on this?  Is it now accepted, what are the restrictions, etc.?


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