This is my first post on a Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster with a Cisco UCS. In the next parts I will write about how to setup a Hyper-V Cluster on a UCS.
After testing and evaluation Bladecenters for our Datacenter, we decided that the Cisco UCS is the best solution for us. There are a lot of reasons why the UCS (Cisco Unified Computing System) is one of the best systems for a datacenter. Some of them are:
Easy cabling
Single Management Console for Switches, Chassies and Blades (UCS Manager)
The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a data center computing solution composed of computing hardware, virtualization software, switching fabric, and management software. The idea behind the system is to reduce total cost of ownership and improve scalability by integrating the different components into a cohesive platform that can be managed as a single unit. Just-In-Time deployment of resources and 1:N redundancy are also possible with a system of this type.
But lets start with our project. First of all what have we got in our starting configuration.
Two chassies with 6 Blade Servers each
12 Blade Servers (2x Intel Xeon 6-cores and 72GB RAM)
6 Nodes for VMware and 6 Nodes for Hyper-V
EMC Storage
In the next part I will write about how to Setup the Blade Servers with Microsoft Hyper-V Server (Core).
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Just curious why you would use both Hyper-V AND VMware on the UCS; are you hosting or something like that? It seems that most companies would decide on one or the other for an internal solution.
Hi Jonathan. Sure if you can take one its much easier, but in our case Hyper-V offers much better licensing costs as VMware, but Hyper-V does not really support our Unix/BSD systems.
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what blades are you using?
what storage protocol are you using?
Cisco UCS B200 M2
And we use the EMC SAN connected via Fibre Channel
Just curious why you would use both Hyper-V AND VMware on the UCS; are you hosting or something like that? It seems that most companies would decide on one or the other for an internal solution.
Hi Jonathan. Sure if you can take one its much easier, but in our case Hyper-V offers much better licensing costs as VMware, but Hyper-V does not really support our Unix/BSD systems.