Virtualization for Cisco TelePresence Content Server

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Version 7.1 and 7.2

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Please refer to Installation guide and Release Notes for more details.

Co-residency support= Full
Supported Versions of VMware vSphere ESXi=
Click for "IOPS"
5.5 and 6.0
Component &
Capacity Point

VM Configuration Requirements
click to download OVA file

Supported Hardware (Latest)
Click here to download support of non-orderable servers

vCPU

vRAM

vDisk

vNIC

UCS Tested Reference Configurations

UCS or 3rd-party Specs-based on Intel Xeon

1 Recording + 1 Live Call(Hyperthreading Disabled)

2

4 GB

1 x 300 GB

1

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

TCS Full Capacity (2 Live + 10 Recording)(Hyperthreading Enabled)

8 or 12
(See Notes)

8 GB

1 x 550 GB

1

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

* See mouse-over column heading for details


Version 7.0

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Please refer to Installation guide and Release Notes for more details.

Co-residency support= Full
Supported Versions of VMware vSphere ESXi=
Click for "IOPS"
5.5
Component &
Capacity Point

VM Configuration Requirements
click to download OVA file

Supported Hardware (Latest)
Click here to download support of non-orderable servers

vCPU

vRAM

vDisk

vNIC

UCS Tested Reference Configurations

UCS or 3rd-party Specs-based on Intel Xeon

1 Recording + 1 Live Call(Hyperthreading Disabled)

2

4 GB

1 x 300 GB

1

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

TCS Full Capacity (2 Live + 10 Recording)(Hyperthreading Enabled)

8
(See Notes)

8 GB

1 x 550 GB

1

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

* See mouse-over column heading for details


Version 6.2

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Co-residency support= Full
Supported Versions of VMware vSphere ESXi=

Click for "IOPS"

1 Recording + 1 Live Call: 5.5
Parity with Generation 2 Appliance: 5.1
Parity with Generation 3 Appliance: 5.5
Component &
Capacity Point

VM Configuration Requirements
click to download OVA file

Supported Hardware (Latest)
Click here to download support of non-orderable servers

vCPU

vRAM

vDisk

vNIC

UCS Tested Reference Configurations

UCS or 3rd-party Specs-based on Intel Xeon

1 Recording + 1 Live Call
See notes

2

4 GB

1 x 300 GB

1

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

Parity with Generation 2 Appliance
See notes

4

4 GB

1 x 450 GB

1

No

No (See Notes)

No (See Notes)

Parity with Generation 3 Appliance
See notes

4

8 GB

1 x 550 GB

1

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

* See mouse-over column heading for details


Version 6.1

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Co-residency support= Full
Supported Versions of VMware vSphere ESXi=

Click for "IOPS"

Parity with Generation 2 Appliance: 5.1
Parity with Generation 3 Appliance: 5.5
Component &
Capacity Point

VM Configuration Requirements
click to download OVA file

Supported Hardware (Latest)
Click here to download support of non-orderable servers

vCPU

vRAM

vDisk

vNIC

UCS Tested Reference Configurations

UCS or 3rd-party Specs-based on Intel Xeon

Parity with Generation 2 Appliance
See notes

4

4 GB

1 x 450 GB

1

No

No (See Notes)

No (See Notes)

Parity with Generation 3 Appliance
See notes

4

8 GB

1 x 550 GB

1

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

* See mouse-over column heading for details


Notes on 7.1 for 2 Live + 10 Recording VM configuration

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By default, version 7.1 comes with 12vCPU with 3 transcoding queues available. If only 2 transcoding queues are needed, this VM can run with 8vCPU.

If this VM is co-resident with other Collaboration VMs on same physical server, then the VM requires 12vCPU (or 8vCPU) and use standard sizing rules of 1vCPU to 1 physical CPU core. If not then this VM may leverage ESXi hyperthreading for non-standard sizing of 1vCPU to 1 ESXi Logical Core (half the physical CPU cores).


Notes on 7.0 for 2 Live + 10 Recording VM configuration

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If this VM is co-resident with other Collaboration VMs on same physical server, then the VM requires 8vCPU and use standard sizing rules of 1vCPU to 1 physical CPU core. If not then this VM may leverage ESXi hyperthreading for non-standard sizing of 1vCPU to 1 ESXi Logical Core (half the physical CPU cores).


Notes on 6.1 and 6.2 for 1 Recording + 1 Live Call VM configuration

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Only VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 is supported with this VM.

Hyperthreading Disabled

Limited to BE6000M and BE6000H.


Notes on Parity with Gen2 Appliance VM configuration

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This VM configuration is only supported on Generation 2 Appliance Hardware (non-UCS-based).

Only VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 is supported with this VM.

Hyper-threading must be enabled in the hardware, as TCS is using Logical Cores / physical CPU oversubscription.

Note: The install guide references logical cores to convey the virtual machine requirements, e.g. for Gen2 Appliance Parity VM, TCS Install Guide lists 8 Logical Cores.


Notes on 6.1 and 6.2 for Parity with Gen3 Appliance VM configuration

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AKA : 5 Recording + 2 Live Calls and 10 Recording + 2 Live Calls.

Only VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 is supported with this VM.

Hyper-threading must be enabled in the hardware, as TCS is using Logical Cores / physical CPU oversubscription.

Note: The install guide references logical cores to convey the virtual machine requirements, e.g. for Gen3 Appliance Parity VM, TCS Install Guide lists 8 Logical Cores.


IOPS and Storage System Performance Requirements

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Parity with Generation 3 Appliance VM (TCS 6.2 BE6K) Parity with Generation 4 Appliance VM (TCS 7.0 BE7K) Parity with Generation 4 Appliance VM (TCS 7.1 BE7K)
Avg Total 37.72 1247.7 349.20
Peak Total 1134.98 28561 50892
Avg Read 12.79 280.72 59.45
Peak Read 1074 3713 624
Avg Write 24.93 966.98 638.95
Peak Write 60.98 24848 50892