[cisco-voip] Cisco UCS or other VMWare platform

[Roger Wiklund]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Reto Gassmann <voip at mrga.ch> wrote:
> Hello group
>
> we are evaluating UCS for our voice servers. we plan to set up on UCS C
> servers.
> my boss asked me to also evaluate the posibillity to install the voice
> servers on our IBM X86 VMWare (ESXi 4.1) infrastructure.
>
> Has anybody experience installing CUCM, CUPS, IP IVR, UCCE on a non UCS
> VMWare platform?
>
> Thanks for feedback
>
> Reto
>

I currently run CUCM 8.6, CUPS 8.6, CUC 8.6, and UCCX 8.5 in VMware
ESXi 5.0 on a HP box. I dont use it in production env. but if you have
a fast enough hardware I see no problems. Cisco has OVA templates for
VMware also, but of course support issues may be a problem.

/Roger