Cisco Cisco Unified Operations Manager 8.5 White Paper
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VMware vSphere Requirements
For best results when deploying the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite in a virtualized
environment, the following requirements should be met at the VMware ESX level for the entire Cisco Unified
Communications Management Suite:
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VMware ESX 4.x and VMware ESXi 5.0.
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VMware ESX and ESXi should be deployed in a configuration supported by VMware.
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All the hardware components such as servers, CPU, storage, and Storage Area Network (SAN) models
should be compatible with the
VMware comprehensive compatibility
guides posted at
http://www.vmware.com
.
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The VMware ESX and ESXi host/IP must be reachable.
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VMware Infrastructure client must be able to access the VMware ESX and ESXi host.
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The virtual network interface card (vNIC) on a Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite
application virtual machine (VM) should be configured with a static MAC address.
Each component of the Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite has a minimum requirement to run
successfully on VMware 3.5. The following sections outline the individual product requirements.
VMware Infrastructure Feature Support
Users should follow the recommended templates for Cisco Unified Communications Management Suite
component virtual machine resource configuration.
Virtualizing Cisco Prime Unified Operations Manager on VMware vSphere
Requirements
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VMware ESX and ESXi requirements should be met.
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Cisco Prime Unified Operations Manager
should be installed.
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Cisco Prime Unified Operations Manager virtual machine configuration properties must match or exceed a
virtual machine template. (See the “
Cisco Prime Unified Operations Manager Virtual Machine Templates
”
section.)
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Disk size and I/O performance should meet or exceed the required level.
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The Cisco Prime Unified Operations Manager virtual machine clock (time) must be reliably kept in sync with
true time. (See “
Timekeeping Basics
” from Timekeeping in VMware Virtual Machines.)
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The Cisco Prime Unified Operations Manager virtual machine must have VMware Tools installed. (See
“
Installing VMware Tools
” on the VMware website.)
Cisco Prime Unified Operations Manager Virtual Machine Templates
Scalability for Cisco Prime Unified Operations Manager on VMware ESX and ESXi can be predicted by adhering to
the hardware requirements and virtual configuration parameters in the following virtual machine templates.
A virtual machine template defines the virtual machine configuration, which includes CPU, memory, disk, and
network resources. The configuration of a Cisco Prime Unified Operations Manager virtual machine must match a
supported virtual machine template defined in Table 1. The supported UOM OVA templates are listed in Table 2.