On the General tab, enter the trunk name. Component & Capacity Point. E.g. Step 1 From the viClient, Initiate the tools upgrade by clicking on VM > Guest > Install / Upgrade VMware Tools (this can also be done by right-clicking on the VM). 2 or 3 Changing the VM configuration to 2 vCPU is recommended as a prevention strategy. Supported Versions of VMware vSphere ESXi= 6.7, 7.0. A Virtual Machine (VM) file on network/shared storage can be booted on any physical server hosting ESXi that has access to that network shared storage. VMware Feature Support for Contact Center. For latency/performance, rule of thumb would be 10 disks (1 HDD per physical CPU cores), but BE6000 testing has shown 6 will be enough for typical app/VM mixes at this capacity point. For "complex" issues isolated to VMware/hardware layers, without vCenter historical data, root cause analysis may not be possible. Adding vDisk is not supported as it would require re-partitioning by the application. Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) Support for adding virtual hardware resources (similar to moving from a less powerful server to a more powerful server, such as MCS 7825 -> MCS 7845) depends on which resource, and which UC product: Adding vCPU is supported for all apps except Unity Connection, but requires VM to be shutdown first. Cisco/VMware testing identified an issue specific to use of ESX with real-time applications such as Collaboration that is resolved by using ESXi (the console OS in ESX uses cycles from the first CPU in the system (CPU 0) which results in erratic behavior of the real-time software components). In VMware documentation and monitoring tools like esxtop, this is also called "GAVG/cmd" (Guest Average Latency per command), and is the response time as perceived by the guest operating system. In this one, Jim shows. VMware "Long Distance vMotion" (site to site) is not supported. See documentation of those applications for details. See vMotion for what is supported. You can run the HyperFlex Sizer (partner-level access) to doublecheck if HX Edge cluster will accommodate. This feature provides an automated disaster recovery solution that works on a "site to site" basis, where a "site" comprises physical servers, VMware and SAN storage. CUCM sending CDR/CMR to the external billing server does not incur any additional IOPS. For deployments leveraging NAS/SAN storage and FCoE (such as UC on UCS B-Series / C-Series connected to Cisco 6x00 Fabric Interconnect Switches), a QoS-capable softswitch (like Cisco Nexus 1000V or alternatives) is strongly recommended. VMware Dynamic Power Management a "cold migration" or "host to host migration", is not vMotion and is supported. Latency values over time are expected to fluctuate. Destination physical server must not end up with over-subscribed hardware after the migration. No reboot is required. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. Not supported. For UC apps, an easier suggested alternative is to just perform manual VM shutdown and migration to the new SAN. LoM: 2x10GE Cu LoM LAN + 1x1GE CIMC (RJ45). Moving a shut down VM during a maintenance window, i.e. See also VMware Data Recovery and Copy Virtual Machine. NOTE: support varies by app and version. NOTE: support varies by app and version. Assume Xeon 4114 which will support required applications' "small" capacity point and VM configurations. ESXi 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5). This feature provides integration with 3rd-party backup utilities so that they can non-disruptively backup the OS and application in a Virtual Machine (VM). Go back to: Cisco Collaboration Virtualization. See. Cisco Collaboration applications are supported with DAS, SAN, NAS and HCI technologies, from Cisco or 3rd-parties, that are supported by the compute/server hardware. in a maintenance window, not in production, not processing live traffic. Existing UC app methods of backing up the software continue to be supported. Assume Xeon 6132 which will support required applications' "medium" capacity point and VM configurations. See vMotion for what is supported. for planned maintenance on the server or VMware software, or during troubleshooting to move software off of a physical server having issues. (see www.cisco.com/go/ucsrnd for details). Existing UC app methods of backing up the software continue to be supported. Note that vdisk partition alignment is affected only by not using the Cisco-provided OVA for initial install or reinstall of a VM. Follow UCS DIMM population rules for 2x16GB=32GB (ignore options like Memory Mirroring). via Distributed Resource Scheduler [DRS]), a few applications have caveated support (see here for details); otherwise it is not supported. Step 5 After installation of the new version of VMware Tools is complete, remove the VMware Tools tar file from the virtual CD/DVD drive. You'll end up with a running copy of Communications Manager. Supported capacity and co-residency rules for UC must be followed before and after the migration. Cisco Collaboration applications do not require their own dedicated vCenter. VSA is not really a "feature" but rather a storage product from VMware. Cisco TAC will isolate Collaboration app issues to the app or infrastructure. VDP in vSphere ESXi 5.1 replaces "VDR" (vSphere Data Recovery / VMware Data Recovery) in prior ESXi releases: see http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2016565. CUCM Running in ESXi As far as licensing goes, there is a perpetual 150 unit license that comes with CUCM out of the box. Two blades are sufficient to provide hardware redundancy. Cisco TAC does not engage on issues isolated to 3rd-party-provided/supported hardware or 3rd-party-provided/supported software. 1K phones per VM Step 1 From the vSphere Client log in to vCenter, or your ESXi host, and go to the Hosts and Clusters view (Ctrl+Shift+H). Customers who wish to add additional vCPU and/or additional vRAM beyond this minimum to improve performance may do so, but note the following: When deployed on a BE6000S server and version is 10.5(2), capacity is limited to 150 users/ 300 devices and design must follow BE6000S requirements in www.cisco.com/go/ucsrnd. Does not protect vs. faults with the SAN or network hardware. To migrate from bare-metal servers (e.g. While there is also a Large Form Factor spec sheet, those models are optimized for different use cases so will not be used in this example for Collaboration. Always verify with server vendor if a hardware-vendor-specific ESXi image is required. For all other details on hardware and VMware support, refer to. Always verify with server vendor that the update is compatible with server model's bios/firmware/driver state. To date this has never been the case, so if the hardware vendor supports it, it is allowed even if unlisted. Cisco Collaboration apps will explicitly indicate which Major/Minor versions they support (e.g. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. NOTE: support varies by app and version. Recall ESX and ESXi are architecture options for VMware vSphere releases prior to 5.0 (. VMware Boot from SAN If the UC app is listed as "Partial" support, then support is "maintenance mode only" as described below: 6K max BHCC per VM Not supported. 2 or 3 Step 2 Choose the automatic tools update and press OK. This feature automatically restarts a Virtual Machine (VM) on the same physical server or a different physical server. Expect similar peaks as Cisco Unified Communications Manager during backups and upgrades. Start learning cybersecurity with CBT Nuggets. Plan for a B200 M5 blade that emulates the specs of Business Edition 7000M (M5) appliance. For more information, see http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/comments/cisco_and_vmware_validated_architecture_for_long_distance_vmotion/ and http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns836/white_paper_c11-557822.pdf. UCM 12.5 requires minimum vmv13, vs. older versions vmv8. Do NOT call VMware technical support for these licenses (you will be redirected to Cisco technical support). Upgrades from 8.x VMs with 2x80GB vdisks to 9.1 or higher are not required to change the vdisk. Log into the ESXi host or its vCenter with vSphere Client. If VSA is desired to be used as shared storage for a virtualized Cisco Collaboration deployment, it must meet the storage requirements for UC on UCS Specs-based or 3rd-party Server Specs-based (e.g. 9.0 and later Not supported. NOTE: support varies by app and version. Unsupported Infrastructure / Virtualization Software Mobile+remote access and desktop+mobile softclients for 50% of users (to support WFH / roaming). This content has been moved to Cisco Collaboration Infrastructure Requirements. Cisco Collaboration apps do not require or even use most of the new features in new vmv versions (e.g. VMware Cloud on Dell EMC VxRail, Amazon AWS Outposts, Microsoft Azure Stack, GKE On-prem and others are not supported). Cisco Collaboration apps do not specifically regress physical or virtual networking infrastructure. Plan to distribute VMs across sites and across hardware nodes. VMware Boot from SAN Physical examples (non-exhaustive) include Cisco route/switch/fabric products like Catalyst, ISR, ASR, ASA, Nexus, UCS Fabric Interconnects/Extenders, ACI, SDA, SD WAN. the recommendations below only apply to single cluster deployments. Storage vMotion HCL, latencies, application VM capacity and performance needs). However, if Storage vMotion must be used, it is only under the following conditions: This is because during the vMotion cutover, the system is paused, which for real-time UC apps creates service interruption which degrade voice quality after the migration for calls in progress. See Resize Virtual Machine instead. Not supported. A Collaboration application may not support every feature in a given Major/Minor version of VMware vSphere ESXi. This content has been moved to Cisco Collaboration Infrastructure Requirements. NOTE: support varies by app and version. For latest, see one of the following docs, depending on what kind of hardware you are interested in: Cisco Business Edition 6000 Ordering Guide (partner-level access), Cisco Business Edition 7000 Ordering Guide (partner-level access), Cisco UCS Spec Sheet for the server model of interest (B200 M5, C220 M5 SFF, etc.). See vMotion for what is supported.Long Distance vMotion is a joint Cisco and VMware validated architecture for using the vMotion feature across data centers. Installing a Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) Server, Version 12.0Get Kevin's FREE Collaboration Mini-Coursehttp://kwtrain.com/6coresys=====. Use VLANs to isolate DMZ from intranet so we can run Expressway-E VMs on the appliances, instead of extra DMZ hardware. E.g. Unless otherwise indicated, Collaboration applications allow co-residency with other Cisco Collaboration apps, Cisco non-Collaboration apps and Follow your shared storage array vendor's instructions for compatibility. 3rd-Party Physical To Virtual (P2V) Migration Tools All adapters must show as supported on the VMware Compatibility Guide for the UCM ESXi version. The following applies to any use of vMotion with UC apps: UCM, IMP and CUC have caveated support (see For networking, a 10GE of faster topology must be selected to ensure enough capacity for application vnic traffic and HXDP storage traffic (from application vdisks). See VMware Consolidated Backup for what is supported. Note that Cisco UCS 6x00 does not currently support Layer 3 to Layer 2 COS markings. b. See vMotion for what is supported. To date, Cisco has not discovered any issues with Collaboration apps due to a newer vmv version. 9.0 and later For latency/performance, rule of thumb would be 14 disks (1 HDD per physical CPU cores). Rack mounting / cable management hardware may be selected. Select the toplevel SKU for a new HX Edge cluster (which will contain HX Edge nodes and required software subscriptions) and cluster node model HX-E-220M5SX, quantity 2. Does not protect vs. faults with the SAN or network hardware. Supported Vendors, Products, Versions and Feature Editions, Unsupported Infrastructure / Virtualization Software, Purchasing / Sourcing Options for Required Virtualization Software, Supported Versions, Patches and Updates of VMware vSphere ESXi, ESXi Major/Minor Versions, Maintenance Versions and Patches/Updates, Supported Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client, VMware Feature Support for Unified Communications. Fast manual server recovery, e.g. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. As a virtual platform we strongly recommend to stick to VMware products as they are successfully passing the hardware checks of the CUCM installation. are not supported) See the Solution Reference Network Design Guide for UC security for what is supported. When deployment on a BE6000S server and version is 11.0 or higher, capacity is limited to 150 users/ 300 devices and design must follow BE6000S requirements in, vCPU/vRAM increases alone do not increase supported capacity, max density per cluster node or max scale per cluster. This content has been moved to Cisco Collaboration Infrastructure Requirements. Method 2: Upgrade from viClient Cisco Collaboration apps do not consult on or debug virtual switch configuration outside of networking guidance in design guides. VMware Fault Tolerance 3 Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. However, using this feature to patch and update the guest OS is only supported by some applications and some versions, this is what is shown on this page when referring to VUM support. restore from backup VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) Multi-cluster for CUC. This yields the following applications and application sizing: Follow design assumptions and best practices from Sizing in Preferred Architecture for Cisco Collaboration 12.x Enterprise On-Premises Deployments, CVD. See the tables below. The system reboots twice. There is no "or later" unlisted versions are not tested/supported. Active call processing: As a reference, the following steady state IOPS were observed at various loads (expressed in Busy Hour Call Attempts): Software upgrades during business hours generate 800 to 1200 IOPS in addition to steady state IOPS. Posted 2:59:29 AM. When enabled on VMs running ESXi 4.1 or later, you may experience slow TCP performance on certain operating systems (depending on which Collaboration application and version). Disable LRO if on ESX 4.1 and app version < 8.6. vCenter Statistics Level 4 logging is mandatory so that Cisco TAC is able to provide effective support. Not supported. This "customer convenience" feature provides easy migration of a live system from one SAN to another SAN. Minimum required memory is ~122GB. Server Vendor's hardware compatiblity information for the vSphere ESXi Major/Minor version required by Cisco Collaboration. Understanding of UCS technologies and Virtualization technologies; Responsible for upgradation of UC applications and end points like CUCM , CUC, IM&P , Jabber Clients etc. Enabling CAR continuous loading results in around 300 IOPS average on the system. 9.0 This yields the following applications and application sizing: If this design needed to handle two-site geographic redundancy, it could do so with additional VMs, higher required infrastructure footprint and imposition of "clustering over WAN" network requirements. Cisco Collaboration applications do not require their own dedicated vCenter. But deploying with sum of vcpu = sum of Logical Processors in ESXi or sum of vcpu(sum of physical CPU cores) is not supported unless specifically indicated by an application. b. 9.1 and higher will support these two-vdisk options: 2x80GB and 1x80GB+1x110GB (where auto-grow COP was used on second vdisk). Not all features in a given Major/Minor release of VMware vSphere ESXi may be licensed/enabled. 1, 2 or 3 Cisco physical / virtual networking infrastructure is presumed transparent to Collaboration workloads. For UC apps, an easier suggested alternative is to just perform manual VM shutdown and migration to the new SAN. Applications are sized with redundant VMs. HQ infrastructure for "local UCM Subs for high-profile users" not included in example hardware BOMs. This will occur automatically. All apps and ESXi will boot from this volume. VMsafe Under the Advanced section, check the Check and upgrade Tools during power cycling option. New ESXi versions may increase the latest vmv version, but new ESXi versions support older vmv versions (see vmware.com for information on compability of old vmv versions with new ESXi versions, such as this vmware.com KB article for compatibility for ESXi version with vmv version). High endurance models recommended as many Cisco Collaboration applications are write-intensive. Like the BE7000M (M5), we will also spec dual quad-port 1GbE NICs to provide extra links and accommodate typical needs for NIC teaming and/or VLAN trunking. See also VMware High Availability and Site Recovery Manager. Use for publishers, subscribers, standalone TFTP, standalone multicast MOH nodes, ELM or PAWS-M. Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solutions has an alternative 2,500 user VM configuration. If VMware tools status does not show "OK" from the viClient, the VMware Tools must be upgraded. Setting up software at a staging location to be later moved or deployed elsewhere. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Cisco Unity Virtualization Design Guide click to download OVA file, Supported Hardware (Latest) If mixing capacity points in the same UCM cluster then the scale per cluster and the density per node continue to be limited to that of the. This VM size can be used when performing a DRS migration from a non-virtualized/physical server with a disk capacity of 80 GB or less (e.g. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. Migration of UC VMs that are live and processing live traffic is supported, but note that Cisco testing cannot cover every possible operational scenario. 3 Finally once the applications ran on newer embedded OS versions, it became possible to support automatic tools upgrades. E.g. Y(C) = Supported with Caveats - see Best Practices for details, Y(P) = Partial (limited) support only - see Best Practices for details. Additionally, the UC applications and operating systems cannot set the Layer 2 COS markings. Follow Business Edition 7000 ordering guide for quoting instructions (toplevel product ID BE7M-M5-K9). Plan for a B200 M5 blade that emulates the specs of Business Edition 6000M (M5) appliance. VM can be installed on DAS and source/destination physical servers can have different DAS yet still vMotion the VM. VMware Tools are specialized drivers for virtual hardware that is installed in the UC applications when they are running virtualized. Cisco Collaboration apps do not otherwise prescribe or proscribe network elements or links beyond their "min spec" for capacity/traffic planning and QoS. fresh install 8.x software on VMware / UC on UCS Step 3 From the Unified CM CLI, enter the CLI command utils vmtools upgrade. Cisco Expressway is supported bare-metal on CE1200 appliance; Cisco Meeting Server is supported bare-metal on CMS 2000 appliance). 10.0 and later MCS-7825-H2). For multi-cluster deployments, it is recommended that you use the 5,000 user VM configuration at a minimum. for VMware check license editions comparison). Not supported. Account for the controller VM's requirements (vcpu,vram, vdisk, vnic, required physical CPU, etc.) Performance is dependent on many factors including deployment specifics, so vCPU/vRAM increases may or may not improve performance. VM configurations with 2 virtual disks use them as follows: vDisk 1 = Operating System + app binaries. 3rd-Party VM-based Deployment Tools for Cisco UCS, see the Server Compatiblity documents at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html. Configuring CUCM - Virtual Machine deployment 4,566 views Aug 18, 2015 26 Dislike Share Go CodeGuru 1.05K subscribers Welcome to the Cisco Unified Call Manager Series. Not supported. It can be used to supplement software redundancy as a means of fast, automated Failed-server recovery when a VM (but not the application) is hung or if there is a fault with the physical host server or VMware software. Not supported. Click here to download support of older/non-orderable servers, UCS or 3rd-party Specs-based on Intel Xeon, VM Configuration Requirements Click Add Trunk to create a new SIP trunk. Not supported. Cisco Unified Intelligence Center VM placement and derivation of required hardware specs. Follow HX DIMM population rules for 4x32GB=128GB. click to download OVA file for this version, Supported Hardware (Latest) See the 3rd-party's documentation (e.g. Installed base version upgrades until end of support. Migration of UC VMs that are live and processing live traffic is supported, but note that Cisco testing cannot cover every possible operational scenario. Refer to the VMware documentation for requirements to use this feature. For contribution to cluster's shared storage, follow guidelines for Cisco HyperFlex: Select a dedicated high-performance storage controller. Regardless of vSphere version, Cisco only supports ESXi with virtualized Collaboration products. Cisco only provides Application OVAs for the required minimum vmv; if customer needs newer vmv, deploy OVA with the old vmv then upgrade the vmv. restore from backup IBM Cloud and others are not supported). Requires SAN storage. NOTE: support varies by app and version. For guide to abbreviations, see At a Glance table at, http://www.cisco.com/go/virtualized-collaborationd, UC on UCS Specs-based and Spec-based 3rd-party infrastructure, Click here for VMware's direction to transition from ESX to ESXi, Hardware/Software Compatibility Requirements, Cisco Collaboration Infrastructure Requirements, http://www.cisco.com/go/virtualized-collaboration, Virtualization Guide for Cisco Unified ICM/Contact Center Enterprise & Hosted 7.5(3), this vmware.com KB article for compatibility for ESXi version with vmv version), Support for Virtualization on the ESXi/UCS Platform, See Storage Requirements for Specs-based hardware support, Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client, www.cisco.com/go/virtualized-collaboration, Caveated Support for VMware CPU Reservations and Distributed Resource Scheduler, http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/comments/cisco_and_vmware_validated_architecture_for_long_distance_vmotion/, http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns836/white_paper_c11-557822.pdf, http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2016565. Softswitches Different app performance is likely on CPUs of same base frequency but different generations. Cisco HyperFlex mandates vCenter regardless of the apps. Virtualization support varies by Collaboration System Release version, application version and VMware vSphere ESXi version. Select a dedicated high-performance RAID controller that supports RAID5. This feature automates patching and updating of VMware vSphere hosts and Guest OS. in VM Placement. If purchased from and supported by Cisco (e.g. VMware vCenter Converter Virtualization Virtualized CUCM VMware changes Highlight: 1. Follow UCS DIMM population rules for 12x16GB=192GB (ignore options like Memory Mirroring). MCS 7825). 9.0 and later For network, spec sheet indicates C220 M5SX includes 2 x 10Gbase-T Intel x550 embedded (on the motherboard) LOM ports. The only supported scenario is a manual move to a different server, e.g. Single cluster for each application (UCM, CUC, IMP, CER, Expressway). Cisco Webex Meetings Server has application-specific co-residency rules independent of physical CPU. Click here for how to configure VMware vCenter to capture these logs. Not supported. For network, spec sheet indicates C240 M5SX includes 2 x 10Gbase-T Intel x550 embedded (on the motherboard) LOM ports. For details on "legacy" virtualization support (i.e. Otherwise, you may deploy with 1 vCPU and be TAC-supported, but note that if the root cause of performance issues is found to be insufficient vCPU, Cisco TAC will ask that you change this to 2vCPU. This feature provides integration with 3rd-party backup utilities so that they can non-disruptively backup the OS and application in a Virtual Machine (VM). Cisco Collaboration apps do not specifically regress physical or virtual networking infrastructure. Questions? If VMware tools status does not show "OK" from the viClient, the VMware Tools must be upgraded. Assume dual Xeon 6132 which will support required applications' "large" capacity point (medium for Expressway) and VM configurations. is not supported (similar to moving from a more powerful server to a less powerful server, such as MCS 7845 ? This feature migrates a live, running Virtual Machine (VM) from one physical server to another. then Cisco will provide support for ESXi. Minimum required memory is ~44GB for this examples VM mix, but during change management or outage mitigation, other VMs may need to run on the server which will drive up required RAM. 3rd-Party Physical To Virtual (P2V) Migration Tools It is handled as part of the guest OS in the Cisco application workload. 1 Follow HX DIMM population rules for 8x16GB=128GB. E.g. (see www.cisco.com/go/ucsrnd for details). a "cold migration" or "host to host migration", is not vMotion and is supported. 7.x of UC apps with VMware vSphere on limited 3rd-party servers), see the following links: Customers can use these multiple NICs for VM network traffic, VMware console access, or management "back-doors" for administrative access, backups, software updates or other traffic that is desired to be segregated from the VM network traffic. BE6000M (M5) appliance uses Intel Xeon 4114 CPU (10C/2.2GHz). Not supported. NOTE: support varies by app and version. HCL, latencies, application VM capacity and performance needs). If you use vCenter, then unless otherwise indicated, Cisco applications do not require their own dedicated vCenter. 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