LoM: 2x10GE Cu LoM LAN + 1x1GE CIMC (RJ45). 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. Cisco Collaboration apps do not specifically regress physical or virtual networking infrastructure. Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) NOTE: support varies by app and version. 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). Elements may be Cisco or 3rd-party, physical or virtual. So we will align with BE7000H (M5) and instead spec 192 GB. 7.x of UC apps with VMware vSphere on limited 3rd-party servers), see the following links: The vmv represents the version of virtual hardware. Specifically for Cisco Unified Attendant Consoles, this means the CUxAC VM must not be doing any Hot Swap or taking any active calls, with no active Directory Synchronization in progress. vCPU/vRAM increases alone do not increase supported capacity, max density per cluster node or max scale per cluster. vCPU/vRAM increases alone do not increase supported capacity, max density per cluster node or max scale per cluster. A Cisco Collaboration app will only specify a MAXIMUM maintenance release if there are known incompatibilitites. E.g. VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple, Google Cloud VMware Solution by CloudSimple and others are not supported). Cisco HyperFlex mandates vCenter regardless of the apps. Cisco Collaboration apps only require vmv4 functionality, so a newer vmv is usually transparent. If purchased from and supported by 3rd-party (e.g. 3rd-Party VM-based Backup Tools Cisco supports only VMWare ESXi virtualisation which makes sense! via Distributed Resource Scheduler [DRS]), a few applications have caveated support (see here for details); otherwise it is not supported. VMware Snapshots VMware Dynamic Power Management Like the BE7000H (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. click to download OVA file for this version, Supported Hardware (Latest) 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. Prior to ESXi 5.1, VM must be installed on shared storage (SAN) and source and destination physical servers must be connected to same SAN. Note: If the tools do need to be updated, the VM may go through an additional boot cycle to update the tools. If you are migrating from a physical server with more than 80 GB of storage space to a virtual machine with a user deployment size of either 500 or 2,000, see the Disaster Recovery System Administration Guide for more information. Values consistently greater than 20-30ms are frequently performance problems for typical applications. See documentation of those applications for details. HQ site has high-profile users who require WAN survivability. Cisco recommendation is to apply the latest patches and updates recommended by VMware and your hardware vendor. Go back to: Virtualization for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), VM Configuration Requirements Plan to have 2+ hardware nodes for redundancy. Which VMs are active, and how many are active simultaneously, depends on how the CUCM cluster nodes are setup with respect to service activation, redundancy groups, etc. 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. End of support no version upgrades available. Testing has shown there is a slight risk of calls in progress being impacted for a few seconds as the migration occurs, with worst case result of the affected calls being dropped. Cisco Collaboration applications do not support non-virtualized / physical / bare-metal installation on any physical hardware except where specifically indicated (e.g. See the tables below. Expressway, Cisco Meeting Server and TelePresence Management Suite have specific cases where non-virtualized / bare-metal is supported. For UC apps, an easier suggested alternative is to just perform manual VM shutdown and migration to the new SAN. Including but not limited to: The ESXi datastore configuration (regardless of storage technology), DAS local storage: motherboard or RAID controller plus the local disks (SAS/SATA HDD, SSD, NVMe, etc. If your deployment is not experiencing any issues, you are not required to change to 2 vCPU and may remain on 1 vCPU. Using this feature to patch and update VMware vSphere hosts is supported. (Usually, the VMware Tools tar file is called linux.iso). Cisco recommendation is to use the latest Maintenance release supported by the hardware vendor. Testing has shown there is a slight risk of calls in progress being impacted for a few seconds as the migration occurs, with worst case result of the affected calls being dropped. Virtualization Software Requirements - Required vs. fresh install 8.x software on VMware / UC on UCS Cisco Unity Connection Version 14. VMware Feature Support for Contact Center. UCM cluster nodes require fixed capacity points with fixed-configuration VMs in the Cisco-provided OVA for UCM. Minimum required memory is 30GB. ESXi 6.7 U2, vmfs6, vmv15, vmtools 10.3.10). 93-98% of total IO is "sequential writes" with an IO block size of 4 kilobytes. for VMware check license editions comparison). You must also follow any compatibility instructions from your hardware providers for the server model, network elements and storage system you are using. 3rd-Party VM-based Deployment Tools 20220453 Systems Administrator II-Cisco CollaborationCLOSING DATE: Open Until FilledAPPLY ONLINE ATSee this and similar jobs on LinkedIn. If what you are looking for isn't listed, search Cisco.com Support or post in the Cisco Community. 5.1 U1) if required by its guest OS or for hardware compatibility. The RAID controller (whether motherboard, PCIe, etc.) Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. Method 2: Upgrade from viClient Failovers to other servers must not result in an unsupported deployment model (e.g. 3rd-party-provided softswitches (e.g. 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. Ephemeral spikes above application's indicated maximum with tiny duration and tiny frequency are expected, but spikes above the application's indicated maximum that are frequent, sustained and/or high-magnitude indicate a potential problem and are likely contributors to application symptoms. 9.0 and later VM can be installed on DAS and source/destination physical servers can have different DAS yet still vMotion the VM. See VMware Consolidated Backup for what is supported. Y(C) = Supported with Caveats - see Best Practices for details, Y(P) = Partial (limited) support only - see Best Practices for details. UCM, IMP and CUC have caveated support (see Cisco Collaboration apps do not prescribe or proscribe individual ESXi patches and updates. This feature automatically restarts a Virtual Machine (VM) on the same physical server or a different physical server. See the Business Edition 6000/7000 documentation for more details. vSphere Data Protection (VDP) See the documentation for the UC application software or UC appliance software to see what is supported. 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). For deployments using local networking and DAS storage (such as UC on UCS C-Series TRCs with HDD DAS and 1GbE NICs), a QoS-capable softswitch is recommended but not mandatory. The task should then be complete and the tools should be shown as "OK". To date, Cisco has not discovered any issues with Collaboration apps due to a newer vmv version. A Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform Edge Edition 1 Yr Subscription is required for each node in the cluster. for Cisco UCS, see the Server Compatiblity documents at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html. 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. Not supported. Two blades are sufficient to provide hardware redundancy. 4K max phones per cluster You can run a 3rd-party RAID calculator to double-check if two RAID5 volumes each with 7x300GB will accommodate. Unified/Packaged Contact Center Enterprise have application-specific co-residency independent of physical CPU. License Comparison- Shipping Destination physical server must not end up with over-subscribed hardware after the migration. Assume campus network already exists (Catalyst and ISR based, with PSTN, WAN and Internet connections) and passes VOIP readiness assessment. USA-based, so requires compliance with US FCC Kari's Law / Ray Baum's Act. with paid-up software support contract with active service level like ECMU). "Maintenance mode only" - VMware vMotion by definition operates on live VMs, but the VM running the UC app must be "live but quiescent". 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. Not supported. Was only sold as 5.x. Performance is dependent on many factors including deployment specifics, so vCPU/vRAM increases may or may not improve performance. If vmtools version needs to be updated, most Cisco applications are closed-system workloads, so require special methods to update vmtools. VM Configuration Requirements Including but not limited to: (Usually, the VMware Tools tar file is called linux.iso). take a software backup b. Embedded virtualization licenses are purchased from and supported by Cisco (e.g. Any 3rd-party public cloud offers that dont use VMware technology (e.g. VMware Cloud on AWS support VMware High Availability (HA) VMware Cloud on Dell EMC VxRail, Amazon AWS Outposts, Microsoft Azure Stack, GKE On-prem and others are not supported). Upgrades from 8.x VMs with 2x80GB vdisks to 9.1 or higher are not required to change the vdisk. Which VMs are active, and how many are active simultaneously, depends on how the CUCM cluster nodes are setup with respect to service activation, redundancy groups, etc. 3rd-party apps as long as rules on this page for VM placement and min hardware spec are followed for all applications. Cisco-provided/required OVA files will be for the specific vmv version used when testing the ESXi major/minor version (e.g. This section will give a summary support position, but for individual components see Support for Virtualization on the ESXi/UCS Platform. Assume new buildout (no compute, storage or virtualization infrastructure exists yet for Collaboration). Existing UC app methods of backing up the software continue to be supported. The administrators could easily install on top, other applications, server roles etc., which made the Call Manager unstable and of course increasing support requests to Cisco. This setting usually needs to be disabled on an ESXi host running Collaboration app VMs (either new install of ESXi 4.1+, or upgrade from ESXi 4.0 to 4.1+ followed by upgrading VMwareTools in app VMs to 4.1+). No version downgrades. Migration offer ends July 31st. Cisco Collaboration applications do not support any 3rd-party public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offer. (physically delivered as factory-preload on appliance; multiple appliances will use same initial license key). 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. 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. The system reboots twice. To migrate from bare-metal servers (e.g. Testing has shown there is a slight risk of calls in progress being impacted for a few seconds as the migration occurs, with worst case result of the affected calls being dropped. Prior to ESXi 5.1, VM must be installed on shared storage (SAN) and source and destination physical servers must be connected to same SAN. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Many other possible supported hardware configurations exist. VM's for Applications must be deployed from, Cisco UCS with local DAS and/or 3rd-party SAN/NAS (e.g. Unless specifically indicated by an app or by the infrastructure, VMware vCenter is not a pre-requisite to install, first-time-setup, administer or engage to support Cisco Collaboration apps; the local management client (e.g. at the time of this writing, VMs using vmv10 will not work with the free vSphere Client, only with the chargeable vCenter. In the popup window choose Interactive Tools Upgrade. VMware Boot from SAN 1, 2 or 3 Virtualization for Unified CM IM and Presence, VM Configuration Requirements via Distributed Resource Scheduler [DRS]), a few applications have caveated support (see here for details); otherwise it is not supported. 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