Tag: Cisco

  • Nutanix .NEXT Announcement – Acropolis and KVM

    I’m happy to see that Nutanix has officially announced their upcoming strategic direction at the .NEXT conference. Using Nutanix Acropolis, KVM, and Prism – data center administrators now have the ability to truly make infrastructure invisible. What Is It? To read more about the specific details take a look at Andre Leibovici’s post here, then come back.…

  • Nutanix and UC – Part 4: VM Placement and System Sizing

    Nutanix and UC – Part 4: VM Placement and System Sizing

    In the last blog post I talked about sizing individual VMs. Today we’ll look at placing UC VMs onto a Nutanix node (an ESXi host) and coming up with overall system sizing. First I’d like to announce the publication of my document for Virtualizing Cisco UC on Nutanix. Readers of the blog will recognize the content…

  • Nutanix and UC – Part 3: Cisco UC on Nutanix

    In the previous posts we covered an Introduction to Cisco UC and Nutanix as well as Cisco’s requirements for UC virtualization. To quickly summarize… Nutanix is a virtualization platform that provides compute and storage in a way that is fault tolerant and scalable. Cisco UC provides a VMware centric virtualized VoIP collaboration suite that allows clients…

  • Nutanix and UC – Part 2: Cisco Virtualization Requirements

    In the last post I covered an Introduction to Cisco UC and Nutanix. In this post I’ll cover UC performance and virtualization requirements. A scary part of virtualizing Cisco Unified Communications is worrying about being fully supported by Cisco TAC if a non-standard deployment path is chosen. This is due to a long history of…

  • Nutanix and UC – Part 1: Introduction and Overview

    I’ll be publishing a series of blog posts outlining Cisco Unified Communications on Nutanix. At the end of this series I hope to have addressed any potential concerns running Cisco UC and Nutanix and provided all the tools for a successful deployment. Your comments are welcome and encouraged. Let’s start at the beginning, a very good…

  • Nutanix and Unified Communications

    The past week has been a whirlwind of studying, research, and introductions now that I’ve started at Nutanix! I’m happy to be on the team working on Reference Architectures for Unified Communications. I’m planning to investigate the major Unified Communications platforms (VoIP, Voice Messaging, IM & Presence, E911) from the top vendors and come up…