Mixing BE6000 UCS Server and "normal" UCS server in the same deployment

Question

Hello,
I have been handed a project which has one high density BE6000 UCS server and a separate UCS C220 M3 server. The latter server was included to host a MediaSense call recording system but this will only use 2 of the available 8 vCPUs on the UCS C220 M3 server.
The total number of users is 200.
I want to implement a resilient system and so would like deploy two servers in a cluster for each of the following applications:
CUCM 10.5
Unity Connection 10.5
IM & Presence 10.5
As well as these applications there will be UCCX 10.6 and Cisco Unified Attendant Console Advanced (10.5) but these will be deployed as single servers.
Looking at the UCS servers they have capacity for me to split the CUCM/CUC/IMP clusters between them.
I cannot see any technical reason why this will not work but do not want to be caught by any Cisco support policies.
If I were to implement the system in this way would there be any issues with the deployment or getting support from TAC.
The separate UCS C220 M3 server has 8 x 8GB RAM (64 total) and 8 x 300GB HDD plus a quad Ethernet card.

Answer 1

James first of all I am not sure I understand your query in detail. Do you mean you have two UCS220 M3 servers? and one of them is currently running BE6000?
Having said that, the key here is to carefully plan your deployment against the capacity of the servers you have,.
Eg..Deploying 200 Users, using the ff OVA
UCS 220 M3 server 1: (using default TRC ie 8vCPU with 8GB per vCPU)
Publisher (2500 cucm OVA): 1vCPU (6GB RAM), 80GB HD
IMP-Publisher (1,000 OVA) :1vCPU(2GB RAM), 80GB HD
CUC-publisher (1,000 users OVA) :2vCPU(6GB)--NB 1vCPU is reserved for ESXI, 160GB HD
UCCX-Master: (300 agent OVA): 2 vCPU (8GB) and 292GB HDD
With this placement you have a total of 22GB RAM and 612HDD used up
A break down is shown below..
Server
Server Name
C220 M3S TRC#1 (Medium)
C220 M3S TRC#1 (Medium)
Application Short Name
Application Long Name
Release
VM Name
vCPU
vRAM
vDisk
CUCM
Unified Communications Manager Release
10.x
CallCtrl: 2,500 users
1
4
80
IM&P
IM & Presence Release
10.x
1,000 users
1
2
80
CUC
Unity Connection Release
10.0
1,000 users
1
4
160
ESXi
Unity Connection
ESXi
1*
CUCCX
Cisco Unified Contact Center Express / Unified IP IVR Release
10.x
Main: 300 agents
2
8
292
ESXi
VMware vSphere ESXi
5.5
4**
* Note: This is a 1 physical CPU core per host regardless of the number of Cisco Unity Connection (CUC) VMs.
** Note: This is 4GB physical RAM per host.