Why 3rd-party servers vendors for UC on VMWare is not supported?

[Andrei Fokin]

Dear colleagues!

     My customer planned migration UC to VMware platform. When I sent him Specs-Based Hardware Requirements for running Cisco UC on Supported Versions of VMware vSphere ESXi (http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Specification-Based_Hardware_Support) he ask me why other 3rd-party server vendor, such as Dell, Fujitsu, Oracle/Sun is not supported.

     Might you tell me explanation (or explanation of vendor Cisco) why this servers vendors is not supported?

Thank you!

[anikas]

I'm not a UC expert but i have included two links that i feel should answer your questions. The second link lists the Cisco 7800 Series Media Convergence Servers.

The Cisco Media Convergence Server 7815-I1 provides an entry-level tower server equipped with an Intel Pentium 4 3060 MHz processor, 80GB Serial ATA hard drive, and a single non-hot swap power supply.

None of the UCS hardware uses the pentium 4. I hope this helps. If not the UC community should be able to provide a answer.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6790/ps5748/ps378/prod_brochure0900aecd8062a4f9.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/voiceapp/ps378/index.html

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