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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Just to be clear, It’s 1:1 to CPU cores, not actual CPUs. CPUs would be crazy! :)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">VCenter requires vSphere Standard. If you did go with a Cisco UCS server you could use Cisco’s vSphere foundation on the low end C220<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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>
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1965 Greenspring Drive</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Madziarczyk, Jonathan [mailto:jmad@cityofevanston.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Matthew Loraditch; cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: UC on non-Cisco VMware hardware?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">JM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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 [<a href="mailto:MLoraditch@heliontechnologies.com">mailto:MLoraditch@heliontechnologies.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Madziarczyk, Jonathan; <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: UC on non-Cisco VMware hardware?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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>
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<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>
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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>
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voice. 410.252.8830<br>
fax. 410.252.9284 <br>
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<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>
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<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>
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