Design Your Deployment
Review the following topics to design your deployment.
Plan Your UC Applications
Before You Begin:
Before you unpack the server, verify that all of the following items are present. If any of the item is missing or appears to be damaged, contact your supplier immediately.
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Cisco Business Edition 6000 or 7000 appliance
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Rack-mounting kit
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Power cord(s)
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Any other required cables (not included with appliance, such as KVM adapter, Ethernet cable, Console cable).
Ensure that you have the following before you unpack the server:
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Space in a standard 19-inch equipment rack (1RU for each BE6000 appliance or 2RU for each BE7000 appliance).
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110 / 220 VAC power feeds.
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VGA monitor and USB keyboard (not supplied) – for initial installation only.
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Ethernet network port(s) configured for appliance's local area network access.
For More Instructions:
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To understand the BE6000 appliance's front and rear panels, see the Detailed Views chapter of the Spec Sheet for Cisco UCS C220 M6 SFF Rack Server (M6S chassis).
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To understand the BE7000 appliance's front and rear panels, see the Detailed Views chapter of the Spec Sheet for Cisco UCS C240 M6 SFF Rack Server (M6SX chassis).
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To rack-mount a BE6000 appliance, see the rack-mount instructions in the Cisco UCS C220 M6 Server Installation and Service Guide.
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To rack-mount a BE7K appliance, see the rack-mount instructions in the Cisco UCS C240 M6 Server Installation and Service Guide.
Make sure that your Cisco Business Edition 6000 or 7000 appliance is rack-mounted and connected to power and data networks.
Before you begin any installation, plan which UC applications you are going to install. For information on the UC applications that are available for installation, and on how to design your Business Edition collaboration deployment refer to the following sites:
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Unified Communications in a Virtualized Environment—This website contains information on the Cisco virtualized applications that are available for installation on a Cisco Business Edition 6000 or 7000 appliance, and how to design your deployment.
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Infrastructure & Co-residency requirements —This web page contains information on the conditions that you must meet to run Cisco applications and any third-party applications on a Business Edition 6000/7000 appliance
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Preferred Architecture Guides —Preferred Architecture documents and CVD guides offer prescriptive, end-to-end system solutions for Collaboration and Voice deployment. The design overviews provide a basic understanding of the products and their roles in the Preferred Architectures, including high-level best practices. The CVD guides provide more detailed design and deployment recommendations that help streamline the implementation of Preferred Architectures.
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Midmarket Collaboration CVD Guides—Midmarket CVDs provide detailed design and step-by-step deployment information for collaboration solutions that are built on the Cisco Business Edition 6000/7000. These CVDs are based on the core recommendations of the Preferred Architectures, and in sometimes, they offer more solution designs as extensions or alternatives to the Preferred Architectures.
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Business Edition 6000/7000 Software Load Summary/Release Notes—Preload Summary documents provide information on ISO and OVA files that are pre-loaded in your server's datastore.
Collect Required Network Information
Collect the following network settings for your installation:
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Subnet mask
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Gateway IP Address
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VMware vSphere ESXi IP address
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VMware vSphere ESXi management IP address
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Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) IP address
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UC application IP addresses
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DNS server IP address
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UC application hostnames
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(Optional) Domain name
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NTP server IP address
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Time zone
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(Optional) SMTP server
Decide how you will interconnect the appliance to your network. Specifics on network interconnection options are beyond the scope of this guide, but below are some important callouts.
Available physical ethernet ports depend on the appliance model:
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All M6 appliance models include modular LAN on motherboard ports as described in the Cisco UCS C220/C240 M6 Rack Server (Small Form Factor Disk Drive Model) Spec Sheet.
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BE7K M6 appliance models ship with quad port 10-Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards. It is not supported on any appliance model to add network interface cards, add virtual interface cards, or change included network interface card.