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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Cisco is listening and just announced support for more VMware features, the DocWiki and other info was recently updated around these changes. A updated UC on UCS SRND is under development by Cisco.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Planning and Designing a Virtualized Unified Communications Solution<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="ftp://ddftp.us.didata.com/Convergence/CiscoLive2011/contents/papers/BRKUCC-2782.pdf">ftp://ddftp.us.didata.com/Convergence/CiscoLive2011/contents/papers/BRKUCC-2782.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized">http://www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Examples<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>VMwareHA Yes<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ResizeVM Partial<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>VMware vMotion Yes<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>VMware DRS No<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>NFS and iSCSI are supported, but require minimum 10Gbps and dedicated NIC for network storage access<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Eric Butcher<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:17 PM<br><b>To:</b> ciscozest; cisco-voip mailinglist<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] UC on UCS auto failover in hardware<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think what you’re describing is VMotion and is very much not supported. (Moving an active VM on a blade that is having trouble to another blade in production)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I do believe you can shut down the VM completely, copy it to a new blade, and turn it back up.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Eric Butcher | </span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red'>CDW </span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A6A6A6'>Professional Services<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black'>(</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> 317.569.4282 (SNR) </span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>|</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black'>*</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:eric.butcher@cdw.com">eric.butcher@cdw.com</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a> <a href="mailto:[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net]">[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>ciscozest<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 13, 2011 6:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> cisco-voip mailinglist<br><b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] UC on UCS auto failover in hardware<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am going to deploy UC on UCS and I am aware that we can move the UC application from one blade server to other slot or UCS chassis easily. However the question is how much redundancy/failover can be supported with UC on UCS system. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>An example for CallManager; if the Subscriber 1 server is down, all the voice endpoints will failover to the backup CCM server automatically. This is application redundancy and auto failover. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As for hardware ie: blade server /disks are down for any reason, would UCS system be able to auto failover the UC applications into another spare blade server?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As far as I know from reading some doco, we have to manualy dissassociate service profile and reassociate that to the spare blade and then power it ON to achieve the recovery.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Can anyone with UC on UCS experience share this thought?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><span style='color:white'>itevomcid</span> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>