[cisco-voip] UC on UCS C-Series with only two on-board 1Gbps Ports - Best Practice Network Connectivity

Boon ciscovoipuser at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 17:44:59 EST 2014


Thanks Anthony, nailed it there for me.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Anthony Holloway <
avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com> wrote:

> At Cisco Live US 2014, I had the opportunity to speak with several UCS and
> UC on UCS Cisco employees about this very topic.  The responses were
> unanimous: it's your choice.
>
> They said, but in my own words, with the BE6Ks user/device limits, the
> solution is fully supported to run on a single 1Gbps link.  The second link
> is mainly for redundancy, and how you choose to implement that redundancy
> is largely based on the environment in which you install the server into.
>
> As an example, maybe you have a company with two switches in their rack
> and they require each server to have a link to each switch.  Because the
> switches are not stacked, you couldn't build an EtherChannel.  You would
> simply go with Active/Standby.
>
> Has anyone performed failover testing with a load on the server to
> document exactly what the perceived outage, if any, would be?  A/A or A/S?
>
> On Mon Nov 10 2014 at 5:37:44 AM Boon <ciscovoipuser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Customer has ordered the 2 port C220-M3S server which is based on the BE
>> version. They haven't purchased the BE bundle so the server has been
>> shipped from Cisco with only the RAID Array setup. I need to design and
>> setup the NICs for both vSphere management and the virtual machine traffic.
>>
>> Can anyone advise on what is best practice for this setup or how BE
>> bundles are configured when shipped from Cisco? Unfortunately I only have
>> experience of working with C-Series with the 4-port PCIe cards for which
>> the setup is reasonably well documented.
>>
>> Thanks
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