BE6000 and BE7000 M7 releases

[JamesHawkins]

Hi,

I have a customer with BE6000 M4 servers who is looking to replace the hardware as End of Support was reached back in June 2023.

The latest version of the UCS C-series is the M7 but no BE6000 or BE7000 servers based on that hardware seem to have been released.

Does anyone know if such servers will be released and, if so, timescales?

If not is there a reference Bill of Materials that can be ordered to create an M7 server that provides equivalent functionality?

[Carlo Poggiarelli]

Hi

BE6k and 7K available hardware is BE6K-M6-K9  and BE7M-M6-K9

BE6K Product Migration

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/unified-communications/business-edition-6000/business-edition-appliances-eol.html

BE7K product migration

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/unified-communications/business-edition-7000/business-edition-7000m-7000h-appliances-eol.html

Regarding R-CBE6K-K9 which was the software appliance containing CUCM , IM&P UCNx and so on, they need to be migrated to a Flex plan due to change of Cisco licensing model from perpetual to Subscription.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/unified-communications/collaboration-flex-plan/index.html

HTH

Regards

Carlo

[Nithin Eluvathingal]

Be6k and 7k are available only on  M6 servers and they got released this year. M6 servers are still order able and not EOS announced. Your current option is to migrate to M6. If you want M7, then you need to build one spec based following the below guide.

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/uc_system/virtualization/cisco-collaboration-infrastructure.html#Specs

[Ashish Patel · Accepted solution]

Some of the solutions may still be being qualified for M7
However always use quote collab tool for spec up your own UCS server examples of non appliance UCS specs are here
https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/uc_system/virtualization/cisco-collaboration-infrastructure.html#HW_Example

[JamesHawkins]

Thanks for all the responses - exactly what I was hoping for!