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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='color:#1F497D'>This makes me very happy. I’m searching like crazy to see all the neat things they’ve done to allow for this. It’s interesting, they seem to “require” a 1:1 ratio for physical and vCPUs, but with the exception of Unity that uses affinity, I don’t see how they’re enforcing it…short of good-faith.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Also, it looks like while I can use “any” level of VMware, in order to use vCenter (required, I think) I still have to purchase a license of at least vSphere Standard, so the free license is not an option. Or did I read it wrong? Not that I would recommend using it that way, but I need to present all the options.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>JM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='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"'> Matthew Loraditch [mailto:MLoraditch@heliontechnologies.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:56 AM<br><b>To:</b> Madziarczyk, Jonathan; cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: UC on non-Cisco VMware hardware?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>They have had specs based for a while restricted to HP/IBM, maybe <1 month ago, they now are expanded to specs based for any hardware provider.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The DocWiki is generally THE reference for what is/isn’t allowed and that page is exactly what you need to be reading.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Matthew G. Loraditch – CCNP-Voice, CCNA, CCDA<br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>1965 Greenspring Drive</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Timonium, MD 21093</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>voice. 410.252.8830<br>fax. 410.252.9284 <br><br><a href="http://twitter.com/heliontech">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Helion/252157915296">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://www.heliontechnologies.com/">Website</a> | <a href="mailto:support@heliontechnologies.com?subject=Technical%20Support%20Request">Email Support</a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a> [<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Madziarczyk, Jonathan<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:57 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] UC on non-Cisco VMware hardware?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Last I heard (around 8.5) Cisco did not support UC on anything but their hardware for virtualization. Now I’m reading this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/UC_Virtualization_Supported_Hardware#.22Can_I_use_this_server.3F.22">http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/UC_Virtualization_Supported_Hardware#.22Can_I_use_this_server.3F.22</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>and it looks like that may have changed since I was last in the loop. Can anyone weigh in on this? Is it now accepted, what are the restrictions, etc.?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>