Physical vs Virtual CallManager

[Chris Michael]

This is more from an managerial view. We have one IPCC and 1 CallManager. We are looking to add additional CallManger (for the obvious reasons). Currently these are physical. With a small environment such as this, is it best to remain physical or go virtual. Looking for Pros/Cons. Thanks for time and input.                   

[Chris Deren]

Definitely go virtual as that is Cisco's focus and direction, there is not much future for physical bare metal server and it would not be surprising for all of them not to be supported on future versions.

Not only will you get longer life span, but many benefits of virtulization, i.e. less power consumption, less cooling, server consolidation, etc.

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Chris

[Rob Huffman]

Hi Chris,

I agree with my friend Chris here (+5 "C-Man!")

Another thing to look at that might sway management to go this route

is the fact that many hardware based "MCS" servers have been EoL'd so

you could address this at the same time.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/voiceapp/ps378/prod_eol_notices_list.html

Cheers!

Rob

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[Ayodeji Okanlawon]

Chris,

I agree 100% with Rob and Chris..The future is Virtualization and I wont be suprised if future versions are not supported on bare metal also. A sneek peek into this is the new ELM (license manager) for CUCM 9.0 which can only run on virtualized platform even if your CUCM servers run on bare metal servers.

Also coming from CiscoLive here in London, the future of techology is virtualizatiuon. So be prepared becasue "today is so yesterday"

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