Cisco Unified Communications on Unified Computing System and UC Manager on VMware

Cisco Unified Communications on Unified Computing System and UC Manager on VMware

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Agenda
Components of Unified Computing System (UCS) Overview of VMware What is and isnt supported for Cisco UC on UCS

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Supported UC Servers in CY10

Cisco-branded

MCS 7816-I4 MCS 7825-I4 MCS 7828-I4 MCS 7816/25/28-I5*

*2HCY10, Not committed

MCS 7835-I3 MCS 7845-I3 MCS 7835-I2 V02 MCS 7845-I2 V02

Cisco UCS B200M1*

*1HCY10, Committed

Cisco UCS C200M1* Cisco UCS C210M1*

*2HCY10, Not committed

Software-only
Equivalent to MCS 7825, 7835 or 7845

End of Sale in CY09

MCS 7816-I3/H3 MCS 7825-I3/H3/H4 MCS 7828-I3/H3 MCS 7835-I2/H2/H2 V02 MCS 7845-I2/H2/H2 V02

IBM x3250-M2 IBM x3250-M3*

*2HCY10, Not committed

HP DL320G5p

IBM x3650-M2 HP DL380G6 HP DL380G5*

*HP end of sale ~2/2010

See www.cisco.com/go/swonly for supported customer-provided servers.

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Cisco UCS Overview

Cisco UCS Overview

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Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)

A single system that unifies
Compute: Industry standard x86 Network: Unified fabric Virtualization: Control, scale, performance Storage Access: Wire once for SAN, NAS, iSCSI

Embedded management
Increase scalability without added complexity Dynamic resource provisioning Ability to integrate with broad partner ecosystem

Energy efficient
Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables Lower power and cooling requirements Increase compute efficiency by removing I/O and memory bottlenecks

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UCS Components

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UCS Blade Overview

Half-width blade Common Attributes 2 x Intel Nehalem-EP processors 2 x SAS hard drives (optional) Blade Service processor Blade and HDD hot plug support Stateless blade design 4x the memory Full-width blade 10Gb CNA and 10GbE adapter Differences Half-width blade Full-width blade 4x memory 12 x DIMM slots 48 x DIMM slots
1 x dual port adapter 2 x dual port adapters

2x I/O bandwidth
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VMware Overview

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VMware Products

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VMware Hypervisor Products

VMware Server
A program that gets installed on an OS such as Windows or Linux

VMware Player
Same as Server, but only runs vms cant create them

VMware Workstation
Similar to Server, but adds features like snapshots

VMware Fusion
Similar to Server but runs on MAC OS X

VMware ESX
Bare-metal hypervisor in a linux-like operating system

VMware ESXi
Bare-metal thin hypervisor. Designed for datacenter use
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UC on VMware ESXi 4.0

In 8.0, only support for UC on VMware ESXi 4.0
Other VMware platforms will not be supported for production use ESXi can be used in stand-alone or managed in a vSphere environment

ESXi is available free for stand-alone use ESXi is more secure and is better for running real-time applications ESXi is future direction for VMwares enterprise data center hypervisor model VMWare must claim compatability
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/

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VMware vSphere
VMware management application suite http://www.vmware.com /products/vsphere/

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History of VMware Support for CUCM

Not supported in CUCM 4 7
May have worked Some with limited licenses or warnings

Supported in CUCM 8.0

Limited scope with initial release Customers must already have VMware infrastructure Customers must already have virtual infrastructure and SAN expertise

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Overview of solution
Support of Ciscos Suite of Unified Communication Applications on the UCS Platform as part of UC 8.0 in a Virtual (VMware) Environment Defined solution from the hardware up UCS hardware must be used Specific VM configurations and support Target customer for initial offering
Customer of the UCS platform Typically an organization of 2500+ end users Extensive experience in VMware data center virtualization and storage area networking
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UC Applications Supported on UCS

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) 8.0 Cisco Unity Connection (CUC) 8.0 Cisco Unified Presence (CUP) 8.0 Cisco Unified Mobility Advantage (CUMA) 8.0 Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) 8.0 Cisco Voice Portal (CVP) 7.0(2) Cisco Unified Expert Advisor (EA) 8.0 Cisco Contact Center Express 8.0 Cisco Unity 8.0 already available Cisco UC Manager Business Edition and Super Cluster are currently not supported

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Hardware Description
UCS B-series half-width blades
2.53GHz Xeon E5540 Processor (Nehalem) 1066MHz RAM Menlo adapter card

SAN storage FC only, no support for NAS or ISCSI SAN must be on VMwares hardware compatibility list. Fiber Channel Drives, 10k or 15k rpm tier 1 storage
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Configuration Description
Some or all Cisco UC applications will require use of VMware Reservation capability to assign both processor cores and memory to Virtual Machines Mix of Cisco UC applications on blade is OK no other vms on the blade. Test and Support only Specific VM Configurations per Application (cores, memory and disk) Configuration of the virtual machine is not enforced in software only through documentation. No oversubscription of RAM or CPU! Underlying hardware is invisible to the virtual machine, is not managed by the virtual machine.

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NIC Teaming
NIC Teaming is not supported in the vm, therefore it is not supported in our application. NIC Teaming is not necessary in the vm, redundancy is provided at the hardware layer (host).

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Migration from Physical to VM

To migrate an existing server to a VM you upgrade your server to 8.0, then take a DRF backup. You then install 8.0 in a VM and do a DRF restore. Same process as migrating from one physical server to another physical server. CUCM cluster migration
Clusters where some of the servers are physical and some are virtual is supported Most customers expected to move into a virtualized cluster this way For example, start by migrating 1 SUB to a VM, validate performance and stability

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vSphere Feature Support

VMotion not supported DRS & Power Management not supported Storage VMotion not supported Snapshots not supported VCB not supported Fault Tolerance not supported HA may be supported, being tested Basic Rule of Thumb if not explicitly listed as supported, its not supported

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Version 7 VM
Only supporting a fresh install of UCM on a version 7 vm Upgrading from a previous version of UCM (pre 8.0) is not supported Any installation on a version 4 VM is not supported

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VM Configuration for Production Use

2 vCPU 6 GB Ram Two 80GB hard disks at scsi id 0:0 and 0:1 Only a Version 7 virtual machine is supported Will be available as an OVF template Supports 7500 users equivalent to MCS7845

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