<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Ed Leatherman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ealeatherman@gmail.com">ealeatherman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Or are you just specifically trying to find a use for the 7825 and<br>
have a sub off of UCS?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Something like that.</div><div><br></div><div>We're aiming for some geographic redundancy, a sub at each one of our large sites. So if everything is inside the UCS, we're hosed if it goes down. If we only have the PUB and 1 SUB in the UCS (which is our headquarters) and 1 SUB each in Each of our large buildings, we get some geographic redundancy. It's worked very well for us, because we have had our TLS (Transparent LAN service) between our buildings go down, and when that happens, the Large buildings are relatively un-affected. Our smaller sites have SRST, so it's all pretty seamless to our end users.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My big concern is the 7825H2's we've got, that go end of hardware support next year. I know the phone system will just keep on running, but I don't want to have to explain to management that "Yea, the phones will be down until you buy a new server". But that being said, management never wants to actually spend money unless I make them.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If I can "recycle" the 4 month old 7825I4 server into another sub, everyone wins. I get a supported platform for at least a few more years, and management doesn't have to spend any money. (Since we already own the UCS blades). By the time the 7825I4's go EOS/EOL, I'm sure we'll have a UCS platform in another building by then, and I'm hoping the UC on UCS restrictions will have relaxed a little bit. My Server guy was a little miffed that I'm getting two slots dedicated to UC, and the blades are not as powerful as the one's he's buying. (We found the document that says faster processors and more RAM are supported after the order was placed.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Mike</div></div>