'Physical' usage of vBlock components

jibbajabba

Does anyone know if VCE has a policy to exclude UCS blades from support if these are taken out of the virtual environment and are being used as standalone physical server ? So rather than using as ESXi host, use them as Windows / Linux server etc.

Essendon

I'll run it past our TAM at work tomorrow and let you know, if someone else doesnt reply by then mate. At one of our sites, I think a couple of blades are being used as backup hosts (physical Windows).

Essendon

So I got a reply back from our TAM, the hardware remains supported no matter what OS is installed on the blade. OS support, whether ESXi/Hyper-v/Linux, is by the respective vendor. HTH.

Zentraedi

jibbajabba wrote: »

Does anyone know if VCE has a policy to exclude UCS blades from support if these are taken out of the virtual environment and are being used as standalone physical server ? So rather than using as ESXi host, use them as Windows / Linux server etc.

Also referred to as a bare-metal host... Basically, VCE support will help you through the UCS side, not including the OS installed UCS drivers or powerpath. Those two could have a "warm handoff" to Cisco and EMC respectively. Keep in mind that there are other considerations when dealing with bare metal hosts. For example, on the array, LUNs for the those bare metal hosts need to come from pools not used by the ESXi hosts.

jibbajabba

Thank you guys. I eventually found the official document which pretty much says the same thing.