03-25-2014 10:23 AM - edited 03-18-2019 02:47 AM
Hi
I am a newbie to Telepresence, so bear with me.
Our Intention is to deply a Full Immersive Telepresence infrastructure into our enviornment.
We have 3 large Data Centres and number of remote sites and home users.
The intention is to deploy TMS 14.1 and TMSXE 3.1 into or AD and VCS-C and VCS-E will use DNS.
We will integrate this with our MS Exchange 2010 environment. Exchange is load balanced
Questions:
With the requirements for 1:2 vCPU to pCPU mapping, smiliarly 1:1 mapping for RAM and the strict co resedency rules for VM, is placing the VCS and TMS servers within a Vblock a expensive blade solution?
With the above question in mind is Telepresence not best suited outside a Vblock blade chassis, unless the intention is to dedicate a blade to each VSC VM?
Does TMSXE v3.1 support load balance Exchange CAS servers.
I have been having issues with these questions and value any input.
Thanks in advance
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03-25-2014 12:32 PM
Ahh, that makes sense.
Yes, TMSXE supports load balanced Exchange CAS servers.
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/telepresence/infrastructure/tmsxe/install_guide/Cisco_TMSXE_install_guide_3-1-2.pdf
Page 30.
Good luck!
03-25-2014 10:46 AM
Hello,
I am not sure about the pricing of a vBlock solution but i think dedicating a vblock solution just for TP solution is going to get expensive. It is true that you need a 1:1 CPU reservation for VCS but depending on the number of applications on a server and the number of CPUs on a server, you should be able to get away with a pizza box Cisco server. Not knowing your requirements, endpoints etc, it will be difficult to comment.
I would suggest you take a look at: http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_in_a_Virtualized_Environment and figure how much horse power is required and see what the equivalent C series server is going to be and compare costs with the vBlock solution.
03-25-2014 11:36 AM
Hi George,
Thanks for your quick response.
The Vblock would host other workloads. However, the VCS requirements would mean 8 vCPU mapped to 8 of the 16 cores in a blade .
I agree pizza boxes are a better choice
We have decided that with the co-residency VCS rule it make sense to dedicate the blade to a VM.
Essentially this means 4 Blades (VCS-C, VCS-E,TMS, TMSXE) this is half of a chassis allocation (half hieght blades).
i will also review the doc you refrenced.
As great as VBlock, just because it can be deployed within a VBlock does not mean it should
Thanks again.
03-25-2014 11:50 AM
I am not sure I understand the logic behind giving a blade to a single application. Where do you see that requirement? How many cores are available on a single balde?
03-25-2014 12:24 PM
Base on the requirement for a large VCS-C\VCS-E
see: http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Virtualization_for_Cisco_TelePresence_Video_Communications_Server
The Blades have 16 cores, B200 M3.
Essentially with a VCS-C its a half a balde worth of CPU
Still unable to determine if,TMSXE v3.1 support load balance Exchange CAS servers
03-25-2014 12:32 PM
Ahh, that makes sense.
Yes, TMSXE supports load balanced Exchange CAS servers.
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/telepresence/infrastructure/tmsxe/install_guide/Cisco_TMSXE_install_guide_3-1-2.pdf
Page 30.
Good luck!
03-25-2014 02:29 PM
Thanlks George.
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