Cisco Business Edition UCS C220 M4S appliance hardware characteristics

[Meddane]

I am looking for the hardware characteristics RAM, CPU and DISK of the Business Edition UCS C220 M4S appliance, but I didnt find a doc description of the RAM, CPU and DISK of this appliance.

Does anyone has an idea?

[Nithin Eluvathingal · Accepted solution]

The BE6K-M4 has reached end-of-life (EOL) last year. The following information was captured from a reseller page that sells EOL Cisco devices.

[Meddane]

Thanks for the valuable information. This customer has this Business Edition solution with CUCM 11.5 and the service contract expired . And he want to upgrade to 14. If they buy a service contract do we need to change BE appliance for the upgrade.

[Nithin Eluvathingal]

Attaching any contract to an End-of-Life (EOL) server is not possible. If you choose to keep the hardware, it will operate without any support, which poses a risk to your infrastructure. However, there is a possibility of running CUCM 14 on M4 hardware by upgrading the VMware. Additionally, upgrading CUCM 14 with Flex will provide you with a support contract for CUCM. If i am correct  this hardware cannot go beyond VMware 7.

[Meddane]

The existing BE 6000 is running VMware ESXi  7.0.3 and this is supported by 14 version.

So the recommendation is to change the hardware ?

[Nithin Eluvathingal]

The recommendation is to upgrade the hardware  to M6. Even M5 has been announced as End-of-Life (EOL)

[Meddane]

In other word we need to buy another hardware model M6?