<div dir="ltr">Scott,<div><br></div><div>(Disclaimer: I work for Nutanix now)</div><div><br></div><div>The specs based server support as documented on the Cisco DocWiki gives a world of flexibility when choosing infrastructure.</div><div><br></div><div>A hyperconverged solution like Nutanix that Brian mentioned could provide a lot of the benefits of shared storage while serving hot data from a local flash and memory tier to provide blazing fast storage performance. It would eliminate the SAN controller bottleneck you mentioned. Each Nutanix node is a local storage controller.</div><div><br></div><div>We've had Nutanix customers provisioning Cisco UC (and contact center) clusters with stellar performance.</div><div><br></div><div>Take a look at some blog posts I wrote as well as a best practices guide for Cisco UC on Nutanix:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Best Practices Guide with example deployments:</div><div><a href="http://go.nutanix.com/bpg-cisco-unified-communications.html">http://go.nutanix.com/bpg-cisco-unified-communications.html</a></div><div> </div><div>Personal blog posts:</div><div><a href="http://bbbburns.com/blog/2014/12/nutanix-and-uc-part-1-introduction-and-overview/">http://bbbburns.com/blog/2014/12/nutanix-and-uc-part-1-introduction-and-overview/</a></div><div><a href="http://bbbburns.com/blog/2015/01/nutanix-and-uc-part-2-cisco-virtualization-requirements/">http://bbbburns.com/blog/2015/01/nutanix-and-uc-part-2-cisco-virtualization-requirements/</a></div><div><a href="http://bbbburns.com/blog/2015/01/nutanix-and-uc-part-3-cisco-uc-on-nutanix/">http://bbbburns.com/blog/2015/01/nutanix-and-uc-part-3-cisco-uc-on-nutanix/</a></div><div><a href="http://bbbburns.com/blog/2015/02/nutanix-and-uc-part-4-vm-placement-and-system-sizing/">http://bbbburns.com/blog/2015/02/nutanix-and-uc-part-4-vm-placement-and-system-sizing/</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:49 AM, Heim, Dennis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Dennis.Heim@wwt.com" target="_blank">Dennis.Heim@wwt.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">It all depends on the layer 8 of your environment and the size of your environment. If your environment is more than say 3-4 physical servers, then I would make
a push for UCSM (UCS Manager). I think a compelling case could be made for the virtual san stuff that Brian mentioned coupled with UCS Fabric Interconnects and C-series with single connect (vic 1225 cards).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Ease of Management<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">vSAN is under your control just like local disks<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">2-4 10gb uplinks instead of 4-6 per physical server.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I personally am not a big fan of the TRCs for larger installs, as the TRC’s limit flexibility which is sometimes needed. Booting esxi via flash card is not supported
under TRC, but under spec’s based is. However, despite my dislike UCS C-series server sprawl, that is the most common option deployed today. UCS-mini does bring a lot of cool options with it too. I have never touched a UCS mini.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I contend you could create a RAID 5 or 6 array on SSD’s and never ever have to worry about IOPS again.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Hardware for UC<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">C series with local storage is definitely the most popular for UC. If you still want enterprise storage features, Nutanix has a nice solution for utilizing your local storage- <a href="http://bbbburns.com/blog/2014/12/nutanix-and-uc-part-1-introduction-and-overview/" target="_blank">http://bbbburns.com/blog/2014/12/nutanix-and-uc-part-1-introduction-and-overview/</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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