Белая книга для Cisco Cisco UCS B440 M1 High-Performance Blade Server
Virtualized Video Infrastructure with Harmonic VOS and Cisco UCS
January 2015
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Required software components include:
• VMware ESXi hypervisor
• VMware vSphere management (VMware vRealize Operations ) for provisioning
• VMware vSphere management (VMware vRealize Operations ) for provisioning
and deploying virtual machines
• Cisco UCS Manager
• Harmonic Electra XVM Open Virtualization Format (OVF) image
• Harmonic NMX Digital Service Manager
• Harmonic Electra XVM Open Virtualization Format (OVF) image
• Harmonic NMX Digital Service Manager
90-Channel Small-Scale Cisco UCS VVI Reference System
Cisco UCS system can easily handle 90 HD channels with Harmonic Electra XVM.
Additionally, this configuration can be used as a convenient building block for
assembling larger configurations to serve a greater number of channels. Using a
total of 16 Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers equipped with Intel Xeon processor
E5-2697 v3 CPUs, the 90-channel small-scale system is composed of:
Additionally, this configuration can be used as a convenient building block for
assembling larger configurations to serve a greater number of channels. Using a
total of 16 Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers equipped with Intel Xeon processor
E5-2697 v3 CPUs, the 90-channel small-scale system is composed of:
• 1 industry-standard 19-inch rack
• 2 6RU Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis: one with 7 active blade servers
• 2 6RU Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis: one with 7 active blade servers
and 1 backup blade server, and another with 8 active blade servers
• 2 Harmonic NMX HWP 3E servers (or Harmonic NMX running on similar blade
servers)
• 2 Cisco UCS 6248UP 48-Port Fabric Interconnects
• 2 Cisco UCS 2204XP Fabric Extenders in each blade chassis
• 2 Cisco UCS 2204XP Fabric Extenders in each blade chassis
As described earlier, the system provides considerable redundancy for high-
availability operation. One spare blade server is provided as part of the configuration,
allowing rapid failover of video processing or delivery services in the event of a
blade failure. In addition, dual network paths and redundant network components
help ensure that any network failure can be easily recovered from, reducing service
interruption.
availability operation. One spare blade server is provided as part of the configuration,
allowing rapid failover of video processing or delivery services in the event of a
blade failure. In addition, dual network paths and redundant network components
help ensure that any network failure can be easily recovered from, reducing service
interruption.
1080-Channel Large-Scale Cisco UCS VVI Reference System
A large-scale 1080-channel system can be built with two Cisco UCS instances
interconnected with Cisco Nexus® 6000 Series Switches and managed with Cisco
UCS Central Software. The full configuration supporting 1080 HD channels would
consist of:
interconnected with Cisco Nexus® 6000 Series Switches and managed with Cisco
UCS Central Software. The full configuration supporting 1080 HD channels would
consist of:
• 24 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis
• 192 Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers
• 4 Cisco UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnects
• 2 Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches
• 1 VMware vRealize Operations server
• Cisco UCS Central Software for multidomain management of Cisco UCS
• 192 Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers
• 4 Cisco UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnects
• 2 Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches
• 1 VMware vRealize Operations server
• Cisco UCS Central Software for multidomain management of Cisco UCS
Achieving Real-World Efficiency
Comparing a 1080 channel deployment in a VVI environment based on Harmonic
Electra XVM and Cisco UCS with a traditional fixed-function video-encoding solution
Electra XVM and Cisco UCS with a traditional fixed-function video-encoding solution