[cisco-voip] Replacement for old 7815-i3 for unity connection 8.6

[Robin Clayton]

Having looked at the BE6000 route it may be an expensive route for us at present.

Given our small user base I am thinking...

Current

7815 CUCx  7.1
7816 CUCM 7.1 ( PUB )
7816 CUCM 7.1 ( SUB ) ( on another physical site  )

Move to

8.6

Move CUCx to virtual  host on UCS C220 M3S then upgrade to 8.6
Move  CUCM (Pub) to host on UCS C220 M3S then upgrade to 8.6
Upgrade CUCM (SUB) on present hardware.

Later.. ( to spread the cost )

Upgrade 2 servers on first UCS to 9.1
Purchase second UCS and move (SUB) to 9.1


Thoughts???

Rob











-----Original Message-----
From: Bryant Onojeta [mailto:onojetathekid at gmail.com]
Sent: 24 September 2013 17:00
To: Matthew Loraditch
Cc: Robin Clayton; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Replacement for old 7815-i3 for unity connection 8.6

Going through it now Rob, I am moving from 8.5.1 to 8.6 and have the
mcs7835i3 that only has 4gm of mem...so I would need to update my pub and sub with 2gb mem each for total cost of 2500 bucks, they are shipped with 4gig and you need to enhance it with 2more gb. So i have decided to squeeze int in on a c220m3.
I am now downloading the ova template and install on vmware.
so i have to migrage physical to virtual, my 8.5.1 version was made bootable my TAC for me to download... now I have to upload iso/ova to datastore and import ova to create the server.
It's been alot of reading on this just to know my options... cause what bothers me is that the conversion is to take 4 or more hours per server...because the underlying linux os is being changed.
Good, luck.. I need it tooo.
-Bryant

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Matthew Loraditch <MLoraditch at heliontechnologies.com> wrote:
> MCS servers are almost completely sold out, only a few models remain
> at random distributors worldwide and the 3rd party options are from my
> understanding are also no longer available.
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> Your best and recommended option is to go Virtual. You have 3rd party
> virtualization options, but I would say go BE6K. See here:
> http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_in_a_Virtualized_
> Environment
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> From: cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf
> Of Robin Clayton
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 10:05 AM
> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [cisco-voip] Replacement for old 7815-i3 for unity connection
> 8.6
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> Dear all ,
>
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> We are looking to upgrade from UCX 7.1.x to 8.6
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> I understand our 7815-i3 is not supported on 8.x
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> I can't work out exactly what the best replacement is,
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> The MCS's listed here
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> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/8x/supported_
> platforms/8xcucspl.html#wp760981
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> Are all EOL with IBM .
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> Is the UCS-C210M2 suitable for a non-virtualised platform?
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> Alternatively I also want to investigate virtualising this server and
> an old
> 7816 running CUCM 7.1 going to 8.6  and the above server on one platform.
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> We have les than 150 handsets and less than 100 mailboxes.
>
> Anyone gone through this?
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>
> Rob
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