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To Vblock or Not to VBlock

dakota2828
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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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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

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Good luck!

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George Thomas
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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.

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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.

 

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?

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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

 

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!

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Thanlks George.

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