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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 size="2" face="tahoma">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,
so I just had multiple 1Tb HD's as their own datastore, this was fine until one of them died...</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="tahoma">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 size="2" face="tahoma">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 size="2" face="tahoma">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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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of matthew@ciscovoiceguru.com [matthew@ciscovoiceguru.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 09 February 2011 18:59<br>
<b>To:</b> mklukas@gmail.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<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>
<div><a href="http://www.kensnyder.net/2009/11/vmware-esxi-40-whitebox-server.html" target="_blank">http://www.kensnyder.net/2009/11/vmware-esxi-40-whitebox-server.html</a></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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<div>Matthew Berry, CCIE #26721<br>
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<div>On Feb 9, 2011, at 1:56 PM, <a href="mailto:mklukas@gmail.com">mklukas@gmail.com</a> wrote:</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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