VCS/TMS virtualization - hardware/storage requirements

[brian.k.clarke]

I need to verify a couple things regarding the virtualizing of the VCS and TMS TelePresence servers.

1) The VCS VM deployment guide references four specific UCS servers (as recommended platforms), but details the requirements for "specification-based" support. In the Cisco UC world, non-UCS support is only available using certain processors on IBM/HP hardware. (No support for Dell servers, for example.)   The VCS deployment guide doesn't indicate any vendor preference, just support requirements for vCPUs, speed, storage, etc. Thus, as long as we provision hardware resources according to this doc, it should be supported on any hardware platform, correct?

2) Is EMC VNX supported for storage?  Again, the deployment guide doesn't detail that local disk is required, so can we confirm that remote storage (over FC, iSCSI, whatever to an EMC VNX SAN) would be supported for TMS & VCS VMs?

Thank you!

[gubadman]

For VCS as long as you define the VM with correct memory and vCPU etc. as specified in the documentation, the VM VCS will be supported. I believe we have some running in our lab with some sort of EMC FC storage, but couldn't say exactly which version it is.

Thanks,
Guy

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[mahkrish]

Hi, For TMS since it is installed on Windows server OS the application whould work fine, however you may see problem due to network, hard disk latency as some features like conference control center feedback communication are instant with the Infra devices.

BR,

Mahesh Adithiyha