Technical information

Ordering Guide

You may order a Collaboration UCS SKU with a Data Center VMware SKU, or vice versa. Note that Data Center

SKUs are only available for VMware Advanced, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus Editions. Collaboration SKUs are

only available for VMware Standard Edition. VMware may only be sold by Cisco for use with UCS servers.

Regardless of how the server was ordered, customers can also purchase the license from VMware or reuse an

existing license.

IMPORTANT: In all cases, you MUST also sell VMware service when you sell VMware product as a Cisco part

number. See Services section below.

Note that there is no Unified Communications Software Subscription coverage for VMware software. VMware

provides its own subscription service that covers upgrades, updates, and technical support.

For system administration, customers will also need at least one licensed copy of the VMware vCenter management

client. These clients are available only from VMware, or from Cisco as a Data Center SKU. There is no Collaboration

SKU for this product.

See http://www.cisco.com/go/swonly for all other details. Below is an example of a clean order for 1 unit of the

Collaboration “per-server” SKU for VMware including required services SKU (screenshot from Multi-Line

Configurator):

Network Readiness (LAN and SAN)

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Cisco UCS requires hookup to the customer’s LAN and SAN. The customer should already have these

networks (hopefully comprising Cisco Catalyst

Switches, Cisco MDS modules, and Cisco Nexus Switches),

but uplinks, expansions, or charge backs may be required to enable UC on UCS. See

http://www.cisco.com/go/srnd for more details.

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UCS C-series uses standard 10 Megabit / 100 Megabit / 1 Gigabit Ethernet interconnects.

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UCS C210M1 Reference Configuration 3 uses a Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter to connect to the SAN.

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For UCS B-series, the network interconnect is via the Cisco UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnect Switch, which

supports only 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel links.

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There are no Collaboration SKUs provided for these network components.

Storage Readiness (only for UCS B-series and UCS C210M1 Reference Configuration 3)

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Cisco Unified Communications 8.x on either a Cisco UCS B200 M1/M2 Blade Server or on Cisco UCS C210

M1/M2 Reference Configuration 3 requires local disks on the server (to run VMware software), as well as a

Fibre Channel Storage-Area Network (SAN) attached disk array (to run UC apps).

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Cisco does not sell the disk array - this is from a third party such as Cisco’s partners EMC and NetApp.

Estimated costs of these solutions are around ~$10-15 per Gigabyte (mostly CapEx). The customer will

usually already have this storage, but the “allocation” for UC on UCS may require an expansion or

chargeback.