[cisco-voip] Changing vCPU Quantities

[Evgeny Izetov]

The latest ova readme files for CUC do have a one-liner about 1 cpu
restrictions for Unified Messaging under the 1000 users template
information, but yeah, it's pretty easy to overlook.

-E

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Erick Wellnitz <ewellnitzvoip at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Based on that caveat, I'd think that's the best bet.  Same with running
> out of storage space in anything other than the common partition.  Too bad
> PCD doesn't do CUC migrations.
>
> If I remember correctly this caveat is due to an application limitation
> and not the OS.
>
> On Jul 27, 2016 11:17 AM, "Anthony Holloway" <
> avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I have been telling people on this list
> <http://cisco-voip.markmail.org/thread/rrege2ktkvjha2oa> for a while now,
> and for that matter, in person too, that you can just shutdown the VM and
> modify the vCPU count per VM and then power it back on.
> >
> > In fact, I know I've done this a half a dozen times in the past.
> However, for CUC, a colleague of mine just uncovered the following bullet
> point:
> >
> *> "Adding vCPU is supported for all apps except Unity and Unity
> Connection, but requires VM to be shutdown first."*
> >
> > Source:
> http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMware_Requirements#Resize_Virtual_Machine
> >
> > So, with CUC being the exception, it would stand to reason that CUC
> requires a DRS backup, new OVA deployment, then DRS restore to change the
> vCPU count, correct?
> >
> > To add to the confusion, PDI is even stating
> <https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12111866/changing-cpu-core-count-esxi-unity-connection-86>
> in certain cases online that changing the vCPU count without a DRS
> backup.restore is support.
> >
> > So, what do you know about this?  Is CUC really different from the other
> apps, or is this a case of bad documentation?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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