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Usage and Audience

Best Practices for Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite on Virtualization provides requirements,

recommendations, policies, and performance metrics to aid in deploying the Cisco

Unified Communications

Management Suite (UCMS) components on VMware vSphere.

This document is intended for anyone responsible for the design or configuration of any Cisco Unified

Communications Management Suite components on VMware vSphere. Successful deployments require

configuration of Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite application servers, VMware vSphere software,

server hardware, data networking, and storage.

Although installation of the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite components on VMware vSphere is

identical to installation on a physical server, this guide highlights the considerations for deploying Cisco Unified

Communications Management Suite in a virtualized environment.

The following components are part of Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite:

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Cisco Prime

Unified Operations Manager (UOM)

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Cisco Prime Unified Service Monitor (USM)

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Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager (USSM)

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Cisco Prime Unified Provisioning Manager (UPM)

Introduction

Virtualization has emerged as a leading trend in enterprises. Organizations are embracing virtualization in

enterprises for a variety of reasons, including total cost of ownership (TCO), consolidation, operational efficiency

and flexibility, disaster recovery and business continuity, security, and reduced carbon footprint.

Cisco is committed to leading the transition toward virtualization through innovative products and solutions. In that

effort, Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite can now be run on the VMware vSphere platform, part of

the VMware Infrastructure suite.

Deploying Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite on VMware vSphere delivers the following

advantages:

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Extends the benefits of virtualization and storage data center investments to Cisco Unified

Communications Management Suite

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Maintains the same predictable scalability provided by running the Cisco Unified Communications

Management Suite application on a dedicated non-VMware (physical) server

You can virtualize the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite in various configurations based on the

number of phones being managed.

To virtualize Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite applications, users must provide the hardware,

VMware vSphere software, and Microsoft Windows Server OS software following the requirements of the Cisco

Unified Communications Management Suite products. Users are also responsible for obtaining support for the

above components including provisioning and performance troubleshooting.

As mentioned above, you will need to arrange the OS yourself. The correct steps for installation will be to run the

Open Virtualization Archive (OVA) file first for sizing, then install the OS needed, and then install the required

UCMS application on top of it.