Cisco Cisco Unified Operations Manager 8.5 White Paper
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VMware Backup
All the VMware products can be backed up using VDR and then restored. For more information on VDR, go to
http://www.vmware.com/products/data-recovery/
.
Software Installation and System Setup
Installation of Cisco Prime Unified Service Monitor and the system setup follow the same processes described in
the Cisco Prime Unified Service Monitor installation guide, available at
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6536/prod_installation_guides_list.html
.
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Create a virtual disk on a data store with sufficient I/O as outlined in the “
Cisco Prime Unified Service
Monitor Virtual Machine Templates
” section of this guide.
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Install Cisco Prime Unified Service Monitor on vDisk1 defined in the “
Cisco Prime Unified Service Monitor
Virtual Machine Templates
” section of this guide.
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For Cisco Prime Unified Service Monitor, follow the installation guide instructions for installing, uninstalling,
and upgrading Cisco Prime Unified Service Monitor. (The other options in the installation guide do not
apply in the virtualization context.)
Licensing
A static MAC address needs to be configured on the virtual machine to use the Cisco Prime Unified Service
Monitor.
Note:
The MAC must be within the allowed VMware MAC address range: 00:50:56:00:00:00 to
00:50:56:3F:FF:FF. A Cisco license is issued only to the static MAC address on the virtual machine.
Virtualizing Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager on VMware vSphere
Requirements
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VMware ESX and ESXi requirements should be met.
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Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager
should be installed.
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Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager virtual machine configuration properties must match or exceed a
virtual machine template. (See the “
Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager Virtual Machine Template
”
section.)
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Disk size and I/O performance should meet or exceed the required level.
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The Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager virtual machine must have VMware Tools installed. (See
“
Installing VMware Tools
” on the VMware website.)
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The Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager virtual machine clock (time) must be reliably kept in sync with
true time. (See “
Timekeeping Basics
” from Timekeeping in VMware Virtual Machines.)
Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager Virtual Machine Templates
Scalability for Cisco Unified Service Statistics 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 Unified Service Statistics Manager virtual machine must match a
supported virtual machine template defined in Table 4. The supported USSM OVA templates are listed in Table 5.