UCS hardware recommendations

[waqas gondal]

Hello,

I was looking for a recommendation of which parts I should be looking at for buying a UCS system to run just a few virtual machines and a catalyst switch that has the WLC capability. This is for a test environment to play around with ISE and Prime so additional machines might also get added to it. 

However I will have to keep it relatively low cost for the business expense. 

The things I will need are:

UCS blade - no idea which one to look at but the machines I will need on it at a minimum are ISE, Prime and a windows AD infrastructure with a CA server.

Catalyst 3650 for testing the functionality of ISE with the built in wireless capabilities of the switch.

Cheers,

Waqas

[Shahzad Arain]

Hi,

Following are ISE system requirements.

Platform	Processor	RAM	Hard disk	RAID	Ethernet NIC	Power
Cisco Identity Services Engine Appliance 3315 (Small)	1 x QuadCore Intel Core 2 CPU Q9400 @ 2.66 GHz (4 total cores)	4 GB	2 x 250-GB SATA HDD (250 GB total disk space)	No	4x Integrated Gigabit NICs
Cisco Identity Services Engine Appliance 3355 (Medium)	1 x QuadCore Intel Xeon CPU E5504 @ 2.00 GHz (4 total cores)	4 GB	2 x 300-GB SAS drives (600 GB total disk space)	Yes (RAID 0)	4 x Integrated Gigabit NICs	Redundant
Cisco Identity Services Engine Appliance 3395 (Large)	2 x QuadCore Intel Xeon CPU E5504 @ 2.00 GHz (8 total cores)	4 GB	4 x 300-GB SFF SAS drives (600 GB total disk space)	Yes (RAID 0+1)	4 x Integrated Gigabit NICs	Redundant
Cisco Secure Network Server 3415 (Small/Medium)	1 x QuadCore Intel Xeon CPU E5-2609 @ 2.40 GHz (4 total cores)	16GB	1 x 600-GB 10k SAS HDD (600 GB total disk space)	No	4 x Integrated Gigabit NICs
Cisco Secure Network Server 3495 (Large)	2 x QuadCore Intel Xeon CPU E5-2609 @ 2.40 GHz (8 total cores)	32GB	2 x 600-GB 10k SAS HDDs (600 GB total disk space)	Yes (RAID 1)	4 x Integrated Gigabit NICs	Redundant

[Shahzad Arain · Accepted solution]

Hello,

CISCO UCS B200 is good option to start with, for further details check below url.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/models-comparison.html

[Walter Dey · Accepted solution]

There are attractive UCS bundles, check eg.

https://apps.cisco.com/ccw/cpc/guest/home.do#!/content/ucsModelDetails/model_b200m3

UCS B200 M3 Entry SmartPlay Solution SingleConnect Solutions

Features 2x B200 M3 Blade Servers, 2x 6248UP Fabric Interconnects, and a Chassis.(UCS-SP7-B200-E)

prod_UCS-SP7-B200-E

MSRP from $26,898.14 ^†

[Danny Sandner]

If you want to use it just for a few VMs, UCS mini may be interesting for you :)