Technical information

Ordering Guide

You should familiarize yourself with the following resources to help you quote a UC on UCS solution:

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Technical Prep materials at http://www.cisco.com/go/ucmigration.

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Plan/Design and support information at http://www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized and

http://www.cisco.com/go/ucsrnd. Some level of UC application design effort is required to determine server

quantity required.

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Netformx DesignXpert, which is used to order Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers, Cisco UCS 5100 Blade

Server Chassis, Cisco UCS 2100 Series Fabric Extenders, and Cisco UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnect

Switches. Cisco has created both a “UC Advisor” and “UCS Advisor” within DesignXpert to assist with solution

pricing. Please visit www.cisco.com/go/designxpert. Netformx is only mandatory for UCS B-series. UCS C-

series may be ordered from Cisco Dynamic Configuration Tool. Additionally, if you are just ordering UC on

UCS B-Series blades without UCS 2100/5100/6100 hardware, these blades may be ordered via Cisco

Dynamic Configuration Tool as well.

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Solution Expert, which will determine Cisco UCS server quantity for input into Netformx “UCS Advisor”.

In general, the ordering tool workflow will be something like this:

1. Go to Solution Expert or Netformx DesignXpert “UC Advisor” to configure the Collaboration software and

any desired Collaboration SKUs for VMware software and/or UCS servers.

2. With the output of above, use Netformx DesignXpert “UCS Advisor” to order any remaining/required Data

Center SKUs for VMware software and/or UCS servers. E.g. for UCS B-series, this will allow you to order

required UCS 2100/5100/6100 hardware SKUs.

3. The resulting order will have separate line items for Collaboration software, Collaboration VMware SKU,

Collaboration UCS server SKU, and Data Center SKUs for VMware and UCS servers.

a. Collaboration SKUs (for applications, VMware, UCS B-series and UCS C-series) can be entered

straight into Dynamic Configuration Tool or other Cisco ordering tools.

b. Data Center SKUs for UCS C-series including VMware options can be entered straight into

Dynamic Configuration Tool or other Cisco ordering tools.

c. For Data Center SKUs for UC on UCS B-series:

i. You can NOT create them via Dynamic Configuration Tool or other Cisco ordering tools.

ii. You must first generate a ConfigSet ID and Access Key via Netformx DesignXpert.

iii. You must also generate a Deal ID via Commerce Workspace or Deals Desk.

iv. You must then load the ConfigSet ID, Access Key and Deal ID into Cisco Ordering Tool.

v. Cisco employees can consult Sales Acceleration Center for assistance on this step.

vi. Channel partners can consult their Cisco channel account team for assistance.

4. If you want to use a Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Vblock with UC, you will need to get certain

exceptions first.

a. The exceptions are:

i. Approval to boot VMware ESXi from local disk drives (instead of boot from SAN)

ii. Approval to operate ESXi 4.0 (instead of 4.1)