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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As Nick mentioned, VMware is supported and probably the more popular installation method lately.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMware_Requirements">http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMware_Requirements</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-ryan<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Nick Marus<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 21, 2012 10:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Karim Jiwani<br>
<b>Cc:</b> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Download CM version 8.6?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">VMWare *IS* supported on current version of CuCM. This is supported on Cisco server hardware (UCS) as well as non Cisco hardware (Spec Based). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Nick<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Karim Jiwani <<a href="mailto:karimjiwani@hotmail.com" target="_blank">karimjiwani@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Dennis,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As I have already mentioned to use it on VmWare and officially cisco does not provide tac support for VmWare based CuCM. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Moreover CuCM is built upon Redhat Linux, technically there iso boot file are identical.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Thirdly there is a more simple solution, use boot loader of any CuCM 7.x+. <br>
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On Jul 20, 2012, at 19:45, "Ryan West" <<a href="mailto:rwest@zyedge.com" target="_blank">rwest@zyedge.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">TAC will post up bootable versions of interim releases for DRS issues. How do you suppose they can
tell the difference between their bootable ISO and one you create. The OS and application files are identical, you’re only inserting a 10KB to allow for boot. I guess I can’t think of a situation where TAC would be inclined to even try to figure that out.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Can you show me a documented case?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Heim, Dennis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 20, 2012 9:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Karim Jiwani; <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">
cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a>; <a href="mailto:svoll.voip@gmail.com" target="_blank">
svoll.voip@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Download CM version 8.6?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you make a non-bootable image, bootable, and you have to get support, you better freshen up that resume. The fact
is tac can determine if a hacked bootloader was used. There are numerous documented cases where a hacked boot loader causes entire enviroments to be rebuilt. Therefore, I would only do this is a lab environment.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dennis Heim</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Sr. UC Engineer</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">World Wide Technology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Office:
<a href="tel:314.212.1814" target="_blank">314.212.1814</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Email:
<a href="mailto:dennis.heim@wwt.com" target="_blank">dennis.heim@wwt.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.wwt.com/" target="_blank">www.wwt.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>
<a href="mailto:[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net]" target="_blank">[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net]</a>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Karim Jiwani<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 20, 2012 12:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a>;
<a href="mailto:svoll.voip@gmail.com" target="_blank">svoll.voip@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Download CM version 8.6?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">You can download any version of CM from cisco site and CCO account is needed. After download you can burn ISO to physical media (DVD) or you can directly mount iso if using VMware.
The ISO and/or DVD is not bootable and only can be used for up-gradation of existing CUCM. Bootable media comes with purchase of new CUCM servers only.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">There are unofficial ways that you can make 8.6 iso bootable at your own risk and use it on VMware. You will need following to things to make iso bootable.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">1. Cucm Iso.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">2. Redhat linux v5 (32 bit) iso<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Open the redhat iso in ultra iso and extract the boot file and save it. Now load the cucm iso in ultra iso. Insert the save bootable file in cucm iso and save the cucm iso. Now
mount or burn the iso and make a clean install of cucm. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">From: "Norton, Mike" <<a href="mailto:mikenorton@pwsd76.ab.ca" target="_blank">mikenorton@pwsd76.ab.ca</a>><br>
To: Scott Voll <<a href="mailto:svoll.voip@gmail.com" target="_blank">svoll.voip@gmail.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a>"<br>
<<a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Download CM version 8.6?<br>
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The one you want is on the Cisco site under<br>
Downloads Home --> Products --> Voice and Unified Communications --> IP Telephony --> Unified Communications Platform --> Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CallManager) --> Cisco Unified Communications Manager Version 8.6 --> Unified Communications Manager
/ Cisco Unity Connection Updates.<br>
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Not bootable but other than that it is the full thing. If you need bootable then you have to use PUT. The one I got from PUT recently was 8.6(2a). For 8.6(2a)SU1 you need to download from the above.<br>
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-mn<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>[mailto:<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>] On Behalf Of Scott Voll<br>
Sent: July-18-12 8:22 AM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br>
Subject: [cisco-voip] Download CM version 8.6?<br>
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Can you download CM or is it a PUT physical media only? is the recovery download the full ISO?<br>
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TIA<br>
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Scott<o:p></o:p></p>
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