OCS is working great for us virtually, but we are only a small operation On 11/21/08, Todd Lemmiksoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Contact Center is a "Call Center" application for handling and > routing phone calls. NCCT should be the "Networking component" that ties > multiple sites together. They would need to "talk" to the PBX on a > physical connection. > Is your "Call Pilot" a server or blade in the PBX cabinet? > > ________________________________ > > From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 2:42 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: VMWare Success Story > > > We already have My Call Pilot & a SQL db server setup in VMWare, and I > think the ones we're wanting to virtualize are called Contact Center & > NCCT. I'm not really sure of the actual names, they are just servers > taking up space and putting out heat in my server room ;) I just know > that we are always behind on patching these servers because Nortel has a > spreadsheet of MS updates and patches that shows you whether or not you > can apply it. > > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Todd Lemmiksoo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sherry, > > We are a Nortel Distributor and I would like to know which > applications you will be virtualizing. > Todd Lemmiksoo > Network Administrator > > All-Mode Communications, Inc. > 1725 Dryden Road > Freeville, New York 13068 > (607) 347-4164 x440 > 1-877-ALLMODE (toll free) > http://www.all-mode.com <http://www.all-mode.com/> > > > ________________________________ > > > From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 12:21 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: VMWare Success Story > > > Our telephony stuff is Nortel and some of it is already > virtualized so we're open to giving it a try. If it doesn't work, we > can always turn the physical back on. We've always been willing to try > virtual even when the vendor/mfg said it wasn't supported. So far, > we've only had to go physical on one application....;) > > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM, John Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > As most of ya'll know, we run VMWare ESX here at my > organization. We've invested a lot into this technology because we > believe that it will keep TCO down. We've been working on a project to > convert as many physical boxes to virtual as possible for the last few > months using the VMWare built in P2V tool. Well, we've gotten to the > point that we have successfully virtualized enough servers that we can > empty a Compaq rack (and probably more when we start cleaning out the > racks of old equipment). We have virtualized our Citrix environment (6 > servers), an unused but necessary for historical data accounting server, > and SMS yes, SMS virtualized, it's sweet and some other systems. We > have 2 of our ESX servers with 64GB memory and 8 cores, have had one of > them load tested with 45 guests running on it and it didn't even go over > 50% utilization on resources. Basically at this point all we have > running on a physical box are DC's (although I have an AD domain in my > DMZ that is all virtual), Exchange, ISA, backup server, Oracle servers, > some telephony stuff, monitoring and file and print servers. We are > looking at virtualizing the telephony stuff and maybe even the file and > print, and will most likely have one of our E2K7 boxes as a virtual box > when we go to E2K7 which is currently in progress. > > Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!! > > -- > Sherry Abercrombie > > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is > indistinguishable from magic." > Arthur C. Clarke > > > Great to hear! Watch out on the telephony > virtualization, I'm told that latency is horid and OCS isn't even > supported in virtual. YMMV > John W. Cook > Systems Administrator > Partnership For Strong Families > Painfully sent to you from my Blackberry > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Sherry Abercrombie > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Sent: Fri Nov 21 12:08:55 2008 > Subject: VMWare Success Story > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, > or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the > person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected > Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. 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