Virtualizing Cisco Unity on ESX

Just doing a little reading on the possibilities of running Cisco Call Manager (Unified Communications), Unity, and CRS (UCCX) in a virtual environment.

Cisco actually supports running Unity as a virtual machine guest in ESX. The Desgin Guide is here http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/unity/virtualization_design/guide/cuvirtualdg010.html

Cisco does not support Vmotion, HA, or iSCSI attached storage for a virtualized Unity box. They also do not support a physical to virtual conversion of a Unity server. Hopefully Cisco will support Vmotion and HA at some point.

I also found some interesting information on running an older Call Manager version (4.x) as a VM – http://www.blindhog.net/cisco-install-call-manager-4x-with-vmware/

Here is some info I found on UCCX – http://tannerezell.com/cisco/?p=85

April 29, 2009 | Filed Under My Notes, Networking, Virtualization, VoIP | 1 Comment 

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