[cisco-voip] Hardware for UC

[Heim, Dennis]

It all depends on the layer 8 of your environment and the size of your environment. If your environment is more than say 3-4 physical servers, then I would make a push for UCSM (UCS Manager). I think a compelling case could be made for the virtual san stuff that Brian mentioned coupled with UCS Fabric Interconnects and C-series with single connect (vic 1225 cards).

Cons:
Cost of Fabric Interconnects

Pros:
Ease of Management
vSAN is under your control just like local disks
Flexibility of shared storage
2-4 10gb uplinks instead of 4-6 per physical server.
Centralized Management platform

I personally am not a big fan of the TRCs for larger installs, as the TRC’s limit flexibility which is sometimes needed. Booting esxi via flash card is not supported under TRC, but under spec’s based is. However, despite my dislike UCS C-series server sprawl, that is the most common option deployed today. UCS-mini does bring a lot of cool options with it too. I have never touched a UCS mini.

I contend you could create a RAID 5 or  6 array on SSD’s and never ever have to worry about IOPS again.

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From: cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Brian Meade
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 11:16 AM
To: Scott Voll
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Hardware for UC

C series with local storage is definitely the most popular for UC.  If you still want enterprise storage features, Nutanix has a nice solution for utilizing your local storage- http://bbbburns.com/blog/2014/12/nutanix-and-uc-part-1-introduction-and-overview/

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Scott Voll <svoll.voip at gmail.com<mailto:svoll.voip at gmail.com>> wrote:
What hardware is everyone using to upgrade there UC enviroment to?

We have UCS Blades with netapp storage, but have had some limitations on IO (prior to the upgraded controllers) that I'm a little concerned about.

I like the idea of vmotion.  But I'm thinking if it's my back side on the line with my UC environment, Maybe the rack mount UCS might be a better bet?  We (UC Team) have also been thinking about the UCS mini with storage blade.

What our others doing?  What is Cisco suggesting these days?

Thanks

Scott



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