Technical information

Ordering Guide
© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential/Proprietary—Pricing for illustration purposes only. Pricing subject to change. Page 47 of 93
A Cisco UCS server may also be quoted as a “build-to-order” configuration of Data-Center part numbers, which
allows access to additional tested reference configurations that are Data Center-centric. For UCS C-series, these
may be ordered via standard Cisco ordering tools. For UCS B-series, these must be ordered via “UCS Advisor” in
NetformX DesignXpert. This option is appropriate for mixed software deployments, where the customer wants
something different than the “preset” reference configuration. See http://www.cisco.com/go/swonly for the alternative
server configurations that are supported. Note that Netformx DesignXpert will encourage memory configurations that
align with maximum performance, and sometimes these recommendations will differ from the reference configuration
used in the Collaboration SKU. As long as you follow the minimum memory rules at http://www.cisco.com/go/swonly
you will be supported.
Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server solutions also require several other components - Cisco UCS 5100 Blade Server
Chassis, Cisco UCS 2100 Fabric Extenders, and Cisco UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnect Switches. These components
are available only as Cisco Data Center part numbers. You must use the NetformX DesignXpert ordering tool “UCS
Advisor” to properly configure and quote these components. For example configurations, see
http://www.cisco.com/go/swonly.
●
At least 1 Cisco UCS 5100 Blade Server Chassis is required for every 8 blades. Additional chassis are
needed if you want redundant chassis and/or split servers across multiple sites.
●
Each chassis will require one or two Cisco UCS 2100 Fabric Extenders, determined by redundancy concerns
and expected LAN/SAN traffic load.
●
Each site requires one or two Cisco UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnect Switches, determined by redundancy
concerns and connected chassis. A single Cisco UCS 6100 can connect more than 10 chassis (80 physical
servers, up to 320 Cisco Unified Communications Manager Virtual Machines), so two per site is usually plenty.
Port Licenses may be required to connect all chassis, and interface modules are required for interconnect to
customer’s LAN and SAN networks.
4. Quote “Readiness” Requirements
UC on UCS solutions require particular VMware software, network, and storage configurations to be
supported.
VMware Readiness
Each Cisco UCS blade or rack-mount server requires an installation of VMware vSphere 4 (ESXi 4.0 or 4.1). Each
populated CPU socket of each Cisco UCS server must be licensed. Cisco Unified Communications does not support
“bare-metal”, “physical”, or “nonvirtualized” installation on Cisco UCS.
The VMware software can optionally be ordered as a single “per-server” Collaboration part number on standard price
lists. Note that a “per-server” Collaboration SKU exists only for “Standard Edition”, dual-CPU server and one-year
support subscription from VMware required. Table 29 gives ordering information for the VMware vSphere ESXi 4.0
Standard Edition.
Table 29. Ordering Information for VMware vSphere ESXi 4.0 or 4.1 Standard Edition
Product Number
Description
List Price ($US)
VMW-UC-STD-K9-1A
VMware vSphere ESXi 4.0 Standard Edition (2 CPU), 1 yr support required
Alternatively, VMware may be ordered as an option on a server Data Center SKU or as a VMware “spare” Data
Center SKU using Cisco ordering tools (for UCS C-series) or Netformx DesignXpert “UCS Advisor” (for UCS B-
series). In this case a “per-CPU” Data Center part number must be ordered for each populated CPU socket on the
Cisco UCS server.