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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>No worries, that wiki site is a bit convoluted and it tends to happen.<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'>Jorge<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"'> Erick Wellnitz [mailto:ewellnitzvoip@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 31, 2012 3:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> Jorge L. Rodriguez Aguila<br><b>Cc:</b> cisco-voip<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] etherchannel for UC on UCS?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>thanks! I guess I didn't read carefully on this one. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Jorge L. Rodriguez Aguila <<a href="mailto:jorge.rodriguez@netxar.com" target="_blank">jorge.rodriguez@netxar.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid #AAAAAA 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in'><h2 style='margin-bottom:.1in;background:white'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>Physical Links</span><o:p></o:p></h2></div><p style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:14.25pt;background:white;text-align:-webkit-auto;word-spacing:0px'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Redundant physical LAN interfaces are recommended</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:14.25pt;background:white;text-align:-webkit-auto;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cisco UCS B-Series connect to the LAN via UCS 6100, so use redundant 1Gbps or 10Gbps ports on the UCS 6100.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:14.25pt;background:white;text-align:-webkit-auto;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Computing_System_Hardware" target="_blank" title="Unified Computing System Hardware"><span style='color:#5A3696'>Cisco UCS C-Series tested reference configurations</span></a> ship with two or six 1Gbps Ethernet ports (two on the motherboard for C210 or C200 plus on C210 additional four on a PCIe NIC). The recommended best practice configuration when using this tested reference configuration is:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt;margin-left:.25in;line-height:14.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>§</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>One or two pairs of teamed NICs for UC VM traffic. One pair is usually sufficient on C200 due to the low load per VM.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.2pt;margin-left:.25in;line-height:14.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>§</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>One pair of NICs (teamed or dedicated) for VMware-specific traffic (e.g. management, vMotion, VMware High Availability, etc.)</span><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='margin-left:.5in;background-repeat:initial initial'><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/File:NotePencil.gif" target="_blank" title=""Note" "><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#5A3696;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=18 height=18 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01CD3F44.F974CD80" alt="Description: Note"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Note</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>:</span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>On a server with both LOM and PCIe NIC ports, when creating a NIC teaming pair, use one port from the LOM and one from the PCIe. This splits the team across the motherboard and PCIe card, and protects against a failure of either PCIe card or the motherboard ports.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:24.0pt;line-height:14.25pt;background:white;text-align:-webkit-auto;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If using specs-based VMware support, other LAN interconnect options may be used, such as using Cisco VIC in NIV mode instead of multiple physical NICs.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/QoS_Design_Considerations_for_Virtual_UC_with_UCS" target="_blank">http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/QoS_Design_Considerations_for_Virtual_UC_with_UCS</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jorge Rodriguez Aguila, CCVP-Voice</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Senior Voice/Data Consultant</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red'>Netxar Technologies</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:jorge.rodriguez@netxar.com" target="_blank">jorge.rodriguez@netxar.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="tel:787-688-8530" target="_blank">787-688-8530</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><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" target="_blank">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Erick Wellnitz<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 31, 2012 3:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> cisco-voip<br><b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] etherchannel for UC on UCS?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Is etherchannel supported for UC on UCS? I want to make sure I'm not planning to do anything which might impact performance.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>