[cisco-voip] Configuration ESXi on UCS

Mon Aug 13 09:54:29 EDT 2012

yes, that does look like a great document. thanks again. 

i'm still crossing my fingers we can install on our existing hardware. it only means having to buy another box (or two) for a new licensing server. 

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From: "Nicholas Samios" <nsamios at staff.iinet.net.au> 
To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca> 
Cc: "Reto Gassmann" <voip at mrga.ch>, cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 9:51:20 AM 
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Configuration ESXi on UCS 

Buying a TRC / C-Series negates having to scope the physical layer completely, leaving only a handful of ESXi settings to get right before dropping UCM over the top. 

By far the best reference article is this one – even though most of it links through to the wiki; 

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/virtual/CUCM_BK_CA526319_00_cucm-on-virtualized-servers_chapter_00.html 

Side now - I am just having way too much fun configuring this cluster (coming from v6.1) and chrome support makes it just that little bit better. 

From: Lelio Fulgenzi [mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca] 
Sent: Monday, 13 August 2012 11:21 PM 
To: Nicholas Samios 
Cc: Reto Gassmann; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Configuration ESXi on UCS 

thanks again. 

is there a step by step document that covers this all? i mean, if i were to go with a TRC solution, would i still have to search hi and low for all these 'gotchas' ? 

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Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A. 
Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 
(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (ANNU) 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
Cooking with unix is easy. You just sed it and forget it. 
- LFJ (with apologies to Mr. Popeil) 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Nicholas Samios" <nsamios at staff.iinet.net.au> 
To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca> 
Cc: "Reto Gassmann" <voip at mrga.ch>, cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 5:57:20 AM 
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Configuration ESXi on UCS 

And one final thing – need to make sure VMWare tools are updated in-line with ESXi version 

I’ve spun up 8.6(2a) with ESXi v5 so get the use the easy methods - 3 or 4. 

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/VMware_Tools 

Cheers, 

Nick 

From: Lelio Fulgenzi [mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca] 
Sent: Sunday, 12 August 2012 6:57 AM 
To: Nicholas Samios 
Cc: Reto Gassmann; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Configuration ESXi on UCS 

we'd need that! can't get to the KB though. will have to look for it offline. 

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Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A. 
Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 
(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (ANNU) 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
Cooking with unix is easy. You just sed it and forget it. 
- LFJ (with apologies to Mr. Popeil) 

From: "Nicholas Samios" <nsamios at staff.iinet.net.au> 
To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca> 
Cc: "Reto Gassmann" <voip at mrga.ch>, cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Sent: Saturday, 11 August, 2012 4:46:20 PM 
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Configuration ESXi on UCS 

One other gotcha - We use pair 6509s with VSS teaming so needed update vSwitch to accommodate 

Follow this KB; 
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1022751 

On 12/08/2012, at 12:34 AM, "Lelio Fulgenzi" < lelio at uoguelph.ca<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca >> wrote: 

That's a great link Nicholas, thanks. 

Sent from my iPhone... 

"There's no place like 127.0.0.1" 

On Aug 11, 2012, at 6:59 AM, Nicholas Samios < nsamios at staff.iinet.net.au<mailto:nsamios at staff.iinet.net.au >> wrote: 

I’ve just configured a pair C210 – main things in ESXi you need to do are disable LRO and align datastore partitions by essentially deleting and re-adding the stores in ESXi 

Long as you use the OVA templates no need to worry about VM specs 

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Implementing_Virtualization_Deployments 

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/virtual/CUCM_BK_CA526319_00_cucm-on-virtualized-servers_chapter_00.html 

I also took the liberty of updating the boot order (demoting NICs an disabling PXE boot) 

From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net > [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Reto Gassmann 
Sent: Friday, 10 August 2012 10:31 PM 
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net > 
Subject: [cisco-voip] Configuration ESXi on UCS 

Hello Group 

is there a document available that describes all the settings for ESXi that UC works without problem on UCS. 
One thing that I found is disable LRO on UCS. 
Are there other settings??? 

Thanks for help 
Reto 
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