UC on UCS

UC Deployment Models, Sizing

and Placement
 UC Deployment Models
•  Same 8.6/9.0 models found in SRND
–  Single-Site, Multi-Site, CoW, MegaCluster
–  Same redundancy still required with Subscribers
•  Hybrid Clusters are supported
–  Nodes on both VM on UCS and Bare-Metal on MCS
•  MoH from Fixed Source / USB
–  Can run on MCS/Bare Metal
–  Better option is to choose Multicast MoH and source traffic
from IOS router with E&M module bringing in live feed and
creating the multicast stream from it (think LMR)

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 VMware HA Deployment Models
•  HA – Supported
–  ESXi host falls over, VMs on shared datastore are brought up on another free ESXi host
–  Takes time/slow, but works – UC Cluster will continue to absorb station registrations and call processing while Subscribers
come back up
•  FT – Not Supported
–  FT is where vLockStep technology keeps two VMs running on two ESXi hosts, and fails to standby when primary falls over
–  FT only works with single vCPU VMs – UC all need 2 vCPUs min
•  DRS – Not Supported
–  Oversubscription/Shared resources
•  SRM – Supported
–  Allows complete replication to another site
–  SAN mirroring
•  Cloning is supported for some UC apps, but requires shutdown of VM
–  Requires much more storage than Cisco DRS but also much faster to restore
–  Still always schedule regular DRS Backups
•  vMotion – Quasi Support
–  Supported for live UCM and UCCX
•  Cisco not responsible for a dropped call during quick vMotion
–  Partial support for UCxn and CUPS
•  Must put UC app into maintenance mode, then vMotion, then continue

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 Sizing
•  Used to be based on MCS physical server
•  Now based on how many vResources you throw at UC node
–  vCPU, vMem, vHDD, vNIC, vHBA
•  Use the OVA templates for sizing
–  OVF = Open Virtual Format
–  OVA = Open Virtual Archive
•  OVA is a tarball of an OVF file, a VMX file and a VMDK file(s)
•  Does not actually contain the data on the disk, just the base disk geometry
•  Cisco Sizing Tool: http://tools.cisco.com/cucst
•  Again – Cisco UC DocWiki

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 UC VM Placement
•  DO NOT OVERSUBSCRIBE ANY RESOURCES
–  Not TAC supported if you do
•  CPU – Hyperthreading does not count as a
vCPU – Cores only
–  UCxn requires a physical core per blade for ESXi
•  Memory – again, no oversubscription and must
have 2GB extra for ESXi
•  Storage – no Thin Disks, all must be Thick – full
size disks
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 UC VM Co-Residency
•  Full co-residency support after 8.6(2) (8.0 - 8.5 was UC w/
UC only)
–  UCM next to UCCX next to CUPS next to Win2k8 FS
•  Recommended not to run mission-critical VM apps next to
UC VM apps
–  Go to TAC with problem, they may ask you to shut down some
VMs on host to test
•  3rd Party VMs may not impose on oversubscription with
UC VMs
•  Still distribute across pCPUs, ESXi hosts, Chassis if
possible

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