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Housekeeping
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Agenda
Platforms
Tested Reference Configurations and
Specs-Based Hardware Support
Deployment Models and HA
Sizing
LAN & SAN Best Practices
Migration
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Appliance Model with MCS servers
Cisco UC Application
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Architectural Shift : Virtualisation with VMware
UC App UC App UC App UC App
ESXi Hypervisor
UCS Hardware
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MCS appliance vs Virtualised
Virtualised
Non Virtualised
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Platforms
Tested Reference Configurations and Specs-based
Platform Options
B200, B230, B440
1 Tested Reference
Configuration (TRC)
C210, C260
C200
2 Specs-Based
(Subset of UC applications)
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Tested Reference Configurations (TRCs)
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Tested Reference Configurations (TRCs)
Configurations not Restricted by TRC
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LAN and SAN options with TRCs
UCS 5108 Chassis
UCS 6100/6200
Fabric Interconnect
10GbE
FC
Catalyst
Nexus
FC
FC SAN
Storage Array
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TRCs
Server ESXi
TRC CPU RAM VMs Storage
Model Storage
2 x E5506
C200 M2 TRC #1 24 GB DAS DAS
(4 cores/socket)
2 x E5640
TRC #1 48 GB DAS DAS
(4 cores/socket)
2 x E5640
C210 M2 TRC #2 48 GB DAS FC SAN
(4 cores/socket)
2 x E5640
TRC #3 48 GB FC SAN FC SAN
(4 cores/socket)
2 x E7-2870
C260 M2 TRC #1 128 GB DAS DAS
(10 cores/socket)
2 x E5640
TRC #1 48 GB FC SAN FC SAN
(4 cores/socket)
B200 M2
2 x E5640
TRC #2 48 GB DAS FC SAN
(4 cores/socket)
2 x E7-2870
B230 M2 TRC #1 128 GB FC SAN FC SAN
(10 cores/socket)
4 x E7-4870
B440 M2 TRC #1 256 GB FC SAN FC SAN
(10 cores/socket)
Specification Description
Server Model/Generation Must match exactly
CPU quantity, model, and
Must match exactly
# cores
Physical Memory Must be the same or higher
Quantity, RAID, technology must match
DAS
Size and speed might be higher
Off-box Storage FC only
C-series: NIC, HBA, type must match exactly
Adapters
B-series: Flexibility with Mezzanine card
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Specifications-Based Hardware Support
Benefits
Offers platform flexibility beyond the TRCs
Platforms
UCS UCS, HP or IBM
Any Cisco, HP and IBM hardware on VMware HCL TRC only w/ certain CPUs & specs
(Dell support not planned)
CPU
Any Xeon 5600 or 7500 with speed 2.53+ GHz
E7-2800/E7-4800/E7-8800 with speed 2.4+ GHz Limited DAS Flexible DAS
& FC only FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS
Storage
Any Storage protocols/systems on VMware HCL e.g. Other DAS
configs, FCoE, NFS, iSCSI (NFS and iSCSI requires 10Gbps adapter)
Adapter Select HBA & Any supported and
1GbE NIC only properly sized HBA,
Any adapters on VMware HCL 1Gb/10Gb NIC, CNA.,
VIC
vCenter required (for logs and statistics)
Details in the docwiki:
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Specification-Based_Hardware_Support
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Specification-Based Hardware Support
Important Considerations and Performance
CPU: 2 x X5650
UCSC-C210M2-
(6 cores/socket) Specs-based (CPU, # disks mismatch)
VCD3
DAS (16 drives)
CPU: 2 x E5649
UCSC-C200M2- Specs-based (CPU, # disks, RAID controller
(6 cores/socket)
SFF mismatch)
DAS (8 drives)
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Specification-Based Hardware Support
UC Applications Support
Specs-based Specs-based
UC Applications
Xeon 56xx/75xx Xeon E7
Unified CM 8.0(2)+ 8.0(2)+
Unity Connection 8.0(2)+ 8.0(2)+
Unified Presence 8.6(1)+ 8.6(4)+
Contact Centre Express 8.5(1)+ 8.5(1)+
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VCE and vBlock Support
VCE is the Virtual Computing Environment coalition
Partnership between Cisco, EMC and VMWare to accelerate the move to virtual computing
Provides compute resources, infrastructure, storage and support services for rapid deployment
Small
Small
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Vblock UCS Blade Options
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Quiz
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Deployment Models and HA
UC Deployment Models
All UC Deployment Models are supported
No change in the current deployment models
Base deployment model Single Site, Multi Site with
Centralised Call Processing, etc. are not changing
Clustering over WAN
Megacluster (from 8.5)
NO software checks for design rules
No rules or restrictions are in place in UC Apps to check if you are
running the primary and sub on the same blade
Mixed/Hybrid Cluster supported
Services based on USB and Serial Port not supported
(e.g. Live audio MOH using USB)
More details in the UC SRND: www.cisco.com/go/ucsrnd
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VMware Redundancy
VMware HA
Blade 3 (spare)
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Other VMware Redundancy Features
Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Allows replication to another site, manages and test recovery plans
SAN mirroring between sites
VMware HA doesnt provide redundancy if issues with VM filesystem as opposed to the UC app built-in redundancy
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Back-Up Strategies
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vMotion Support
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Quiz
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Sizing
Virtual Machine Sizing
Virtual Machine virtual hardware defined by an VM template
vCPU, vRAM, vDisk, vNICs
Capacity
An VM template is associated with a specific capacity
The capacity associated to an template typically matches the one with a MCS server
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Now, off-line version
also available
http://tools.cisco.com/cucst
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Examples of Supported VM Configurations (OVAs)
Product Scale (users) vCPU vRAM vDisk (GB) Notes
(GB)
10,000 4 6 2 x 80 Not for C200/BE6k
7,500 2 6 2 x 80 Not for C200/BE6k
Unified CM 8.6
2,500 1 4 1 x 80 or 1x55GB Not for C200/BE6k
1,000 2 4 1 x 80 For C200/BE6k only
20,000 7 8 2 x 300/500 Not for C200/BE6k
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_Virtualization_Downloads_(including_OVA/OVF_Templates)
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CUCM OVA
Device Capacity Comparison
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Virtual Machine Placement
Rules
CPU
The sum of the UC applications vCPUs must not exceed
the number of physical core With
Hyperthreading
Additional logical cores with Hyperthreading should NOT
be accounted for
Server (dual quad-core)
Note: With Cisco Unity Connection only, reserve a CPU-1 CPU-2
physical core per server for ESXi
SUB1 CCX CUP CUC
Memory
ESXi
CUC
The sum of the UC applications RAM (plus 2GB for Core 1 Core 2 Core 3 Core 4 Core 1 Core 2 Core 3 Core 4
ESXi) must not exceed the total physical memory of the
server
Storage
The storage from all vDisks must not exceed the physical
disk space
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VM Placement Co-residency
Co-residency Types
1. None
2. Limited
3. UC with UC only
Notes: Nexus 1kv, vCenter are NOT considered as a UC application
4. Full
Full co-residency
UC applications in this category can be co-resident with 3rd party applications
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VM Placement Co-residency
Full Co-residency (with 3rd party VMs)
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VM Placement Co-residency
UC Applications Support
ESXi
CUC
(Active)
Rack Server #2
CPU-1 CPU-2
(Standby)
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VM Placement Example
CUCM VM OVAs
Messaging VM OVAs
Presence VM OVAs
Spare blades
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Quiz
1. Is oversubscription supported with UC applications?
Answer: No
1. With CUCM 8.6(2)+, can I install CUCM and vCenter on the same
server?
Answer: Yes (CUCM full co-residency starting from 8.6(2))
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UC Server Selection
TRC vs Specs Based
Platform Decision Tree
Need HW performance
YES TRC
Start guarantee?
Select TRC platform and
Size your deployment
NO NO
Expertise in
VMware /
Virtualisation
NO
YES
Specs-based
supported by
UC apps?
Specs-Based
1
Select hardware and
Size your deployment
YES using TRC as a reference
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Hardware Selection Guide
B-series vs C-series
B-Series C-Series
Storage SAN Only SAN or DAS
Typical Type of customer DC-centric UC-centric
Not ready for blades or shared storage. Lower operational
readiness for virtualisation.
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Hardware Selection Guide
Suggestion for New Deployment
>~96
B230, B440 or eq
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LAN & SAN Best Practices
Cisco UCS C210/C260 Networking Ports
Best Practices
Best Practice
Use 2 GE ports from the Motherboard and 2 GE ports from the PCIe card for the VM traffic. Configure them with NIC teaming.
Use 2 GE ports from the PCIe card for ESXi Management
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VMware NIC Teaming for C-series
No Port Channel
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VMware NIC Teaming for C-series
Port Channel
Single virtual Port Channel (vPC) Two Port Channel (no vPC)
Virtual Switching System (VSS) / virtual VSS/vPC not required but
Port Channel (vPC) / cross-stack required No physical switch redundancy since
most UC applications have only one vNIC
EtherChannel EtherChannel
vPC Peerlink
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004048
http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/netsol/ns304/c649/ccmigration_09186a00807a15d0.pdf
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9402/white_paper_c11-623265.html
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UC applications QoS with Cisco UCS B-series
Congestion scenario LAN
L2:3 L3:CS3
UCS FI
If there is congestion between the ESXi
host and the physical switch, high priority
packets (e.g CS3 or EF) are not prioritised Possible Congestion
over lower priority packets
FEX A
Possible Congestion
L2:0 L3:CS3 VIC
vHBA 1 vHBA 2 vmnic 1 vmnic2
vSwitch or vDS
vNIC 1 vNIC 2 vNIC 3 vNIC 4
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UC applications QoS with Cisco UCS B-series
Best Practice: Nexus 1000v LAN
UCS FI
Best practice: Nexus 1000v for end-to-
end QoS
FEX A
Nexus 1000v
vNIC 1 vNIC 2 vNIC 3 vNIC 4
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UC applications QoS with Cisco UCS B-series
Cisco VIC
All traffic from a VM
have the same
Cisco VIC CoS value
CoS 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Nexus 1000v is still
the preferred
vHBA vmnic0 vmnic1 vmnic2 vmnic3 solution for end-to-
vSwitch or vDS end QoS
FC MGMT vMotion vNIC1 vNIC2
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SAN Array LUN Best Practices / Guidelines
HDD Recommendation FC class (e.g 450 GB 15K, 300 GB 15K) ~ 180 IOPS
LUN Size Restriction Must never be greater than 2 TB
UC VM App Per LUN Between 4 & 8 (different UC apps require different space requirement based on
OVA
LUN Size Recommendation Between 500 GB & 1.5 TB
HD 1 HD 2 HD 3 HD 4 HD 5
450gig 450gig 450gig 450gig 450gig
15K RPM 15K RPM 15K RPM 15K RPM 15K RPM
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Tiered Storage
Overview
Tiered Storage
Definition: Assignment of different categories of data to
different types of storage media to increase performance Highest Highest
Performance Capacity
and reduce cost
EMC FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering):
Continuously monitors and identifies the activity level of
data blocks in the virtual disk
Automatically moves active data to SSDs and cold data to
high capacity lower-cost tier
SSD cache
Continuously ensures that the hottest data is served from
high-performance Flash SSD
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Tiered Storage
Best Practice
Storage Pool
95% of IOPS
FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH 5% of capacity
NL-SAS NL-SAS NL-SAS NL-SAS NL-SAS NL-SAS NL-SAS NL-SAS NL-SAS NL-SAS
SSD Cache
Active Data from
FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH NL-SAS Tier
Use NL-SAS drives (2 TB, 7.2k RPM) for capacity and SSD drives (200 GB) for
performance
RAID 5 (4+1) for SSD drives and NL-SAS drives
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Tiered Storage
Efficiency
Traditional Single Tier With VNX Tiered Storage
300GB SAS 200GB Flash
SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS 2TB NL-SAS
R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1
SAS SAS SAS Flash Flash Flash
SAS SAS
R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1
R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1
SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS
R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 NL-SAS NL-SAS NL-SAS NL-SAS NL-SAS
R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1
R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1
SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS
R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1
SAS SAS SAS SAS SAS
R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1 R 5 4+1
Optimal Lowest
Performance Cost
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Storage Network Latency Guidelines
Kernel Command Latency
time vmkernel took to process SCSI command < 2-3 msec
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IOPS Guidelines
Unified CM BHCA IOPS
10K ~35
25K ~50
50K ~100
CUCM upgrades generate 800 to 1200 IOPS in addition to steady state IOPS
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Migration and Upgrade
Migration to UCS
Overview
2 steps
1. Upgrade
Perform upgrade if current release does not support 1 Upgrade
Virtualisation (for example, 8.0(2)+ required with
CUCM, CUC, CUP)
2. Hardware migration
Follow the Hardware Replacement procedure (DRS 2 Hardware Migration
backup, Install using the same UC release, DRS
restore)
Docwiki www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized
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Final Thoughts
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