Thanks for the Feedback Guys,<br><br>I did a little more research, and it seems Cisco disabled (whether on purpose or by accident) the ability to install CUCM/Connection 7.0 on an AMD powered VM Server, however in 7.1.2 it is supposed to work fine again.<br>
<br>See:<br><a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/cisco/nsp/100250">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/cisco/nsp/100250</a><br>and<br><a href="http://worldofunifiedcommunications-uc.blogspot.com/2009/07/cucm-712-amd.html">http://worldofunifiedcommunications-uc.blogspot.com/2009/07/cucm-712-amd.html</a><br>
<br>I will likely evaluate the cost of a HP/IBM ESXi supported server over a whitebox before I make a final decision but I've worked with a couple white-box machines in the past so I'm aware of some of the gotchas/challenges and am fairly comfortable going that route. <br>
<br>Regards<br>Matt Klukas<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Stephen Welsh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen.welsh@unifiedfx.com">stephen.welsh@unifiedfx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Personally I'd be suprised if the later versions of UCM would work on an AMD CPU given there increased detection and integration with VMWare and it's configuration. One component that I know would not work is Cisco Unified Applications Environment (CUAE)
as it states it needs a timer only implimented on Intel CPU's, but then that's not a typical lab component ;)</div>
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<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">I ran ESXi on a white box until just last week, the two restrictions I found were the NIC card and Hard Drive controller. I had to buy a 'listed' Intel Gig card and I could not use the raid function of the on-board HD controller,
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<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">So I decided to bite the bullet and buy a DL380G5 with 2xQuad core CPU's and 8Gb RAM, it was a great deal at £900, and including the cost of some new HD's (5x500Gb) it came in at £1500.</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">It is a lot of money, but well worth it, and having iLO on your lab set-up is great</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">Also, ESXi's free license used to only enable 1 physical CPU, but with ESXi 4.1 it's unlimited so I now have 8 CPU cores ;)</font></div>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Cisco UC 7.x products on AMD Powered ESXi Server<br>
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<div>Hey Mr. Klukas! Long time no see!
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<div>If you're looking to build a whitebox ESXi server, check out Ken Snyder's blog post below:</div>
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<div>Building an ESXi server can almost be more of a headache than just buying a low-end approved ESXi server that you KNOW will run ESXi without issues from the start.</div>
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<div>If I had $2000 to dump on a VMware server, I think that's what I'd do.</div>
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Just curious if anyone has experience running Cisco's UC products (version 7.x) in VM running on top of AMD hardware? I did some searching and couldn't find much of any information on this topic, I don't expect it would make much if any difference so long as
the hardware is compatible with ESXi but I thought I'd see if anyone had any first-hand experience. This would be for a Lab scenario only.<br>
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Matt Klukas<br>
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