Values greater than 2ms may cause performance problems. the recommendations below only apply to single cluster deployments. Not supported. This setting usually needs to be disabled on an ESXi host running Collaboration app VMs (either new install of ESXi 4.1+, or upgrade from ESXi 4.0 to 4.1+ followed by upgrading VMwareTools in app VMs to 4.1+). NOTE: support varies by app and version. This is because during the vMotion cutover, the system is paused, which for real-time UC apps creates service interruption which degrade voice quality after the migration for calls in progress. Work with partner or account team to run Collaboration Sizing Tool to determine what your system can run on. Not supported for other applications. Not supported. IBM Cloud and others are not supported). Plan to have at least one hardware node per site for redundancy. VMware High Availability (HA) 4.0 U4, 4.1 U2, 5.0 U1, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 (For application fresh installs on ESXi 6.5 (VMFS5 or 6) and/or vCenter 6.5, use minimum OVA file version cucm_im_p_10.5_vmv8_v1.2.ova. VSA is not really a "feature" but rather a storage product from VMware. 4K max phones per cluster Refer to the VMware documentation for requirements to use this feature. For a given capacity point (such as the 10K user VM), the virtual hardware specs represent the minimum for that capacity point. To date, Cisco has not discovered any issues with Collaboration apps due to a newer vmv version. New ESXi versions may increase the latest vmv version, but new ESXi versions support older vmv versions (see vmware.com for information on compability of old vmv versions with new ESXi versions, such as this vmware.com KB article for compatibility for ESXi version with vmv version). Scheduled uploads are around 250 IOPS for Publisher's VM only. 9.1(1) and later Click here for how to configure VMware vCenter to capture these logs. Solved: CUCM 11.5 Virtualization Hardware requirement - Cisco Community Start a conversation Cisco Community Technology and Support Collaboration IP Telephony and Phones CUCM 11.5 Virtualization Hardware requirement 4766 15 4 CUCM 11.5 Virtualization Hardware requirement Go to solution A_ Beginner Options UCM cluster nodes require fixed capacity points with fixed-configuration VMs in the Cisco-provided OVA for UCM. then Cisco will provide support for ESXi. If the UC app is listed as "Supported with Caveats", then support is as described below: Please note the following caveats: Required VM count for software redundancy will fit on three rack servers per site. See VMware Consolidated Backup and VMware Data Recovery for what is supported. The only supported scenario is a manual move to a different server, e.g. Long Distance vMotion UCCE and CWMS have restrictions here). License Comparison - Install Base One HDD per physical CPU core, with 4-8 disks per RAID6 array (more disks per volume are discouraged due to slowed write times vs. many Cisco Collaboration applications are write-intensive). Use the following procedure to perform this upgrade. For real-time load-balancing of live UC VMs (e.g. Requirements on this page only apply to these software release combinations: Some applications may have application-specific rules that are different. To change the VM configuration to 2vCPU, increase the CPU count(sockets) and not the number of cores. Medium/large systems require 2.50 GHz for deterministic support. VMware Dynamic Power Management Including but not limited to: LoM: 2x10GE Cu LoM LAN + 1x1GE CIMC (RJ45). Used to preserve the state of a VM without copying or creating additional VMs, effectively as a backup/restore or reversion technique. vSphere Data Protection (VDP) This is because during the vMotion cutover, the system is paused, which for real-time UC apps creates service interruption which degrade voice quality after the migration for calls in progress. Cisco Unified Communications IM&P consists of up to six servers, including one server that is designated as a publisher. NOTE: support varies by app and version. 3rd-party apps as long as rules on this page for VM placement and min hardware spec are followed for all applications. Cisco Systems. Caveated Support for VMware CPU Reservations and Distributed Resource Scheduler, Virtualization for Unified CM IM and Presence, Click here to download support for M4 and older hardware, https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/unified-communications/unified-presence/products-installation-and-configuration-guides-list.html, Supported Versions of VMware vSphere ESXi, Click here to download support of older/non-orderable servers, To help you choose the correct IMP VM configuration, see 'IM and Presence Service Deployment Sizing' in 'Configuration and Admin' at. For isolation of "complex" issues, if there is no evidence the application is the problem and/or the application logs point to VMware/hardware layer, then the application is ruled out and the problem will be deemed isolated to VMware/hardware layer. If the server is Cisco UCS, you may need to use a UCS-specific image for U3 on vmware.com. Upgrades from 8.x VMs with 2x80 GB vDisk to 9.1 or higher are not required to change the vDisk. Cisco Collaboration applications do not support any 3rd-party public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offer. In QuoteCollab tool, model VM placement and note tallied hardware requirements for each hardware node. Long Distance vMotion Use of Cisco Nexus 1000V is therefore strongly recommended as this is currently the only way to deterministically manage traffic congestion through the UCS 6x00. For multi-site scenarios, this may instead require "exporting" the VM. See the 3rd-party's documentation (e.g. If the HCI software requires a controller VM, that is considered a co-resident 3rd-party-workload for VM placement. Not supported. Migration of UC VMs that are live and processing live traffic is supported, but note that Cisco testing cannot cover every possible operational scenario. 2 or 3 It is very important that the VMware tools version running in the UC application be in sync with the version of ESXi being used. See also VMware Data Recovery and Copy Virtual Machine. 50% work from home + mobile roaming support. Destination physical server must not end up with over-subscribed hardware after the migration. Not supported. Caveated Support for VMware CPU Reservations and Distributed Resource Scheduler). Adding vDisk is not supported as it would require re-partitioning by the application. Assume Xeon 6132 which will support required applications' "medium" capacity point and VM configurations. (see www.cisco.com/go/ucsrnd for details). Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Xen, Red Hat Virtualization, etc. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. you want to upgrade from 5.0 to 5.0 U3. See VMware vCenter Converter for what is supported. Virtual Appliance Packaging of UC apps Partner or account team may need to assist with running Cisco Collaboration Sizing Tool (CST). Amazon Web Services [AWS], Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and others are not supported). Cisco Collaboration apps do not require or even use most of the new features in new vmv versions (e.g. Not supported. E.g. This feature provides integration with 3rd-party backup utilities so that they can non-disruptively backup the OS and application in a Virtual Machine (VM). Virtualization for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) CUCM Components: CUCM includes the following main components: - Cisco Unified Communications Manager Publisher (PUB) - Cisco Unified Communications Manager Subscriber (SUB) - Cisco Unified Communication Manager IM & Presence (CUPS) - Cisco Unity Connections (UC) The only supported scenario is a manual move to a different server, e.g. Otherwise, unless indicated NOT to by a Cisco Collaboration app, customers are free to manually upgrade the vmv to a newer vmv supported by the ESXi version. VDP in vSphere ESXi 5.1 replaces "VDR" (vSphere Data Recovery / VMware Data Recovery) in prior ESXi releases: see http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2016565. Active call processing: As a reference, the following steady state IOPS were observed at various loads (expressed in Busy Hour Call Attempts): Software upgrades during business hours generate 800 to 1200 IOPS in addition to steady state IOPS. . for Cisco UCS, see the Server Compatiblity documents at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html. One HDD per 2 physical CPU cores, with at least 4 disks per RAID10 array. When enabled on VMs running ESXi 4.1 or later, you may experience slow TCP performance on certain operating systems (depending on which Collaboration application and version). Applications are sized with redundant VMs. VMware Compatibilty Guide (http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl) for the the vSphere ESXi Major/Minor version supported by Cisco Collaboration. 10.0 NOTE: support varies by app and version. Not supported. Disable LRO if on ESX 4.1 and app version < 8.6. vCenter Statistics Level 4 logging is mandatory so that Cisco TAC is able to provide effective support. NOTE: support varies by app and version. This feature migrates a live, running Virtual Machine (VM) from one physical server to another. For more information, see http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/comments/cisco_and_vmware_validated_architecture_for_long_distance_vmotion/ and http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns836/white_paper_c11-557822.pdf. 10.5 and later For Business Edition 6000 example, assume Expressway-E VMs run on the appliance, with VLANs used to isolate from intranet. 3 If we evenly split the application VMs across two cluster nodes, then we'll need at least 18 physical CPU cores (18C) on each node. HCL, latencies, application VM capacity and performance needs). Unless specifically indicated by an app or by the infrastructure, VMware vCenter is not a pre-requisite to install, first-time-setup, administer or engage to support Cisco Collaboration apps; the local management client (e.g. Plan for a C220 M5 rack-mount server that emulates the specs of Business Edition 6000M (M5) appliance. For capacity drives, required usable space is ~1.6TB. 1 device per user Step 1 Edit the VM settings by clicking on the Options tab, and select VMware tools. 3rd-Party VM-based Backup Tools Prior to ESXi 5.1, VM must be installed on shared storage (SAN) and source and destination physical servers must be connected to same SAN. 3rd-Party Physical To Virtual (P2V) Migration Tools E.g. E.g. All apps and ESXi will boot from this volume. Virtualization Virtualized CUCM VMware changes Highlight: 1. VMware Feature Support for Contact Center. Supported capacity and co-residency rules for UC must be followed before and after the migration. If vMotion is suspected as the cause of dropped calls, customers should gather appropriate application logs as well as performance data from VMware vCenter and send to Cisco TAC for analysis. VMware Tools are specialized drivers for virtual hardware that is installed in the UC applications when they are running virtualized. However, if Storage vMotion must be used, it is only under the following conditions: Cisco Collaboration apps do not prescribe or proscribe individual ESXi patches and updates. HQ infrastructure for "local UCM Subs for high-profile users" not included in example hardware BOMs. Slower CPUs maybe possible, but will only have caveated support. Fast manual server moves, e.g. Then at a later time, you may upgrade the ESXi software to version 4.1 or migrate the vm to a host running ESXi 4.1 - once running on the different ESXi version, you will need to upgrade the VMware Tools running in your UC application to match the host it is running on. a "cold migration" or "host to host migration", is not vMotion and is supported. 5.0 U3 on UCS C220 M3 SFF, check the UCS interop matrix to see if any updates required before U3 will work on that hardware. Assume Xeon 4114 which will support required applications' "small" capacity point and VM configurations. 9.0(1) and later 3rd-Party Physical To Virtual (P2V) Migration Tools. UCM, IMP and CUC have caveated support (see Customers who wish to add additional vCPU and/or additional vRAM beyond this minimum to improve performance may do so, but note the following: When deployed on a BE6000S server and version is 10.5(2), capacity is limited to 150 users/ 300 devices and design must follow BE6000S requirements in www.cisco.com/go/ucsrnd. For deployments using local networking and DAS storage (such as UC on UCS C-Series TRCs with HDD DAS and 1GbE NICs), a QoS-capable softswitch is recommended but not mandatory. The CUCM installer will detect that the underlying hardware is virtualized on ESXi and install all the appropriate drivers. Note that use of VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1 requires disabling the "LRO" setting (click here for details). Virtualization for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) Version 14 Version 12.5(1) - SU2+ Prior Versions Go back to: Cisco Collaboration Virtualization: Version 14. The "storage system" is defined as all hardware and software end-to-end required for the UCM virtual machine's vdisk to be available to the application. NOTE: support varies by app and version. Another alternative is manual Virtual Machine shutdown and migration. Applications are sized with redundant VMs. For more information, see http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/comments/cisco_and_vmware_validated_architecture_for_long_distance_vmotion/ and http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns836/white_paper_c11-557822.pdf. via Distributed Resource Scheduler [DRS]), a few applications have caveated support (see here for details); otherwise it is not supported. Testing has shown there is a slight risk of calls in progress being impacted for a few seconds as the migration occurs, with worst case result of the affected calls being dropped. Monitor the virtual machine console from the vSphere Client to see the system status. 3rd-Party VM-based Deployment Tools Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. CUCM licenses are based on the number of TelePresence endpoints and Jabber Video licenses in your VCS environment. Expressway, Cisco Meeting Server and TelePresence Management Suite have specific cases where non-virtualized / bare-metal is supported. 3rd-Party Physical To Virtual (P2V) Migration Tools Enabling CAR continuous loading results in around 300 IOPS average on the system. OVAs configured differently than the predefined templates are not supported unless specifically allowed on the app's page on www.cisco.com/go/virtualized-collaboration. This feature provides integration with 3rd-party backup utilities so that they can non-disruptively backup the OS and application in a Virtual Machine (VM). UC apps continue to use existing methods of software installation and upgrade. Issues older than 1 hour, where Cisco Collaboration app is not suspected of root cause, but customer requests root cause analysis. A check will now be performed each time the VM powers on to determine if the tools need to be updated. Older versions used 2x80 GB or other configurations as shown in tables above. See the documentation for the UC application software or UC appliance software to see what is supported. Go back to: Virtualization for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), VM Configuration Requirements Cisco Unified Work Force Optimization Suite, Cisco Unified Contact Center Management Portal, Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server, Hosted Collaboration Solution for Contact Center, Virtualization for Cisco Unified Contact Center Domain Manager, Cisco Preferred Architectures for Collaboration, Collaboration Ordering Guides Partner Portal, Cisco Collaboration Solutions Design Guidance, Collaboration QoS and Network Design Guidance, Virtualized Collaboration Storage Design Requirements. Use for publishers, subscribers, standalone TFTP, standalone multicast MOH nodes, ELM or PAWS-M. Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solutions has an alternative 2,500 user VM configuration. If your deployment is not experiencing any issues, you are not required to change to 2 vCPU and may remain on 1 vCPU. BE6000M (M5) appliance uses Intel Xeon 4114 CPU (10C/2.2GHz). New ESXi versions may increase the latest vmv version, but new ESXi versions support older vmv versions (see vmware.com for information on compability of old vmv versions with new ESXi versions, such as this vmware.com KB article for compatibility for ESXi version with vmv version). If later we find we need more links, faster links or different interconnect type, we can always add additional NICs or Cisco VICs later. If we evenly split the application VMs across three cluster nodes, then we'll need at least 29 physical CPU cores (29C) on each node. For support clarifications on virtual network elements, see. "Template" in this context refers to an OVA file that defines the virtual server (but not the "workload", i.e. Not all features in a given Major/Minor release of VMware vSphere ESXi may be licensed/enabled. NOTE: support varies by app and version. NOTE: support varies by app and version. To download the OVA files, refer to the Collaboration Virtualization Sizing guidelines. For UC apps, an easier suggested alternative is to just perform manual VM shutdown and migration to the new SAN. These values are per active VM. Method 2: Upgrade from viClient Long Distance vMotion Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Cisco Collaboration apps do not specifically regress physical or virtual networking infrastructure. E.g. An ESX cluster can contain ESXi hosts running Cisco Collaboration. Not supported. Destination physical server must not end up with over-subscribed hardware after the migration. Examples of the unsupported architectures are non-Xeon (Pentium, Celeron, etc. VMware "Long Distance vMotion" (site to site) is not supported. Plan for a C240 M5 rack-mount server that emulates the specs of Business Edition 7000H (M5) appliance. See the documentation for the UC application software or UC appliance software to see what is supported. Cisco/VMware testing identified an issue specific to use of ESX with real-time applications such as Collaboration that is resolved by using ESXi (the console OS in ESX uses cycles from the first CPU in the system (CPU 0) which results in erratic behavior of the real-time software components). If vMotion is suspected as the cause of dropped calls, customers should gather appropriate application logs as well as performance data from VMware vCenter and send to Cisco TAC for analysis. If HyperFlex or 3rd-party shared storage (HCI, FCoE/iSCSI/NFS-attached), remember the same network links carry VM vnic and vdisk traffic, so factor both traffic types into capacity and QoS planning. you want to upgrade from 5.0 to 5.0 U3. HCL, latencies, application VM capacity and performance needs). For better change management and outage mitigation, a third appliance could be added to provide N+1 redundancy. See also VMware High Availability and Site Recovery Manager. b. 7.x of UC apps with VMware vSphere on limited 3rd-party servers), see the following links: The vmv represents the version of virtual hardware. Not supported. See each Collaboration application's documentation for any Cisco physical / virtual networking infrastructure is presumed transparent to Collaboration workloads. It is the sum of two other latency values (GAVG = KAVG + DAVG): "KAVG/cmd" (VM Kernel Average Latency per command) - an indicator of CPU resources/performance. All apps and ESXi will boot from this volume. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) This feature provides integration with 3rd-party backup utilities so that they can non-disruptively backup the OS and application in a Virtual Machine (VM). Cisco recommendation is to apply the latest patches and updates recommended by VMware and your hardware vendor. "Complex" virtualization environments are defined as: Prevalent 3rd-party infrastructure not provided by Cisco, Performance debugging & other issues where isolation/root cause is not straightforward. Assume Xeon 6132 which will support required applications' "large" capacity point (medium for Expressway) and VM configurations. Prior to ESXi 5.1, VM must be installed on shared storage (SAN) and source and destination physical servers must be connected to same SAN. There is no "or later" unlisted versions are not tested/supported. Your results will vary. Failovers to other servers must not result in an unsupported deployment model (e.g. Use of Cisco Nexus 1000V is therefore strongly recommended as this is currently the only way to deterministically manage traffic congestion through the UCS 6x00. Some non-exhaustive examples: E.g. NOTE: support varies by app and version. Step 3 The process will take a few minutes. Logical Cores do not increase the number of physical cores available to apps. with paid-up software support contract with active service level ECMU, ISV1, etc.) Choose Device Type as Client Device. For deployments leveraging NAS/SAN storage and FCoE (such as UC on UCS B-Series / C-Series connected to Cisco 6x00 Fabric Interconnect Switches), a QoS-capable softswitch (like Cisco Nexus 1000V or alternatives) is strongly recommended. If you use vCenter, then unless otherwise indicated, Cisco applications do not require their own dedicated vCenter. To configure a trunk, proceed to Connectivity -> Trunks. Customers seeking capacity increases should migrate all cluster nodes to a higher fixed capacity point as described in the design guide and upgrade guide. Always verify with server vendor that the update is compatible with server model's bios/firmware/driver state. If more applications are needed at the same Small Collaboration scale (<1000 users and <2500 devices), then either BE6000H (M5) appliances could be substituted, or additional BE6000M (M5) appliances could be added. See vMotion for what is supported.Long Distance vMotion is a joint Cisco and VMware validated architecture for using the vMotion feature across data centers. Additionally, the UC applications and operating systems cannot set the Layer 2 COS markings. C240 M5SX chassis will be used for up to 24 hard disk slots, which allows lower-cost HDD to be used (vs. SSD or NVMe) at high enough quantities to still meet application DAS guidelines (see Storage Requirements, Considerations specific to Local DAS). Minimum required memory is 30GB. You can run a 3rd-party RAID calculator to double-check if four RAID5 volumes each with 6x300GB will accommodate. It can be used to supplement software redundancy as a means of fast, automated Failed-server recovery when a VM (but not the application) is hung or if there is a fault with the physical host server or VMware software. Adding vNIC is not supported unless the UC app supports multiple network connections with different IP addresses. Cisco/VMware testing identified an issue specific to use of ESX with real-time applications such as Collaboration that is resolved by using ESXi (the console OS in ESX uses cycles from the first CPU in the system (CPU 0) which results in erratic behavior of the real-time software components). "Maintenance mode only" - VMware vMotion by definition operates on live VMs, but the VM running the UC app must be "live but quiescent". Values consistently greater than 20-30ms are frequently performance problems for typical applications. See the Install and Upgrade guide for Cisco Unified Intelligence Center 11.0 and later for more details.) vCPU/vRAM increases alone do not increase supported capacity, max density per cluster node or max scale per cluster. Additionally, the UC applications and operating systems cannot set the Layer 2 COS markings. 1 The following applies to any use of vMotion with UC apps: While there is also a Large Form Factor spec sheet, those models are optimized for different use cases so will not be used in this example for Collaboration. Existing UC app methods of backing up the software continue to be supported. Cisco does not produce OVA files for newer vmv versions, or test newer vmv versions since VMware indicates these are backwards compatible. Otherwise, you may deploy with 1 vCPU and be TAC-supported, but note that if the root cause of performance issues is found to be insufficient vCPU, Cisco TAC will ask that you change this to 2vCPU. (Usually, the VMware Tools tar file is called linux.iso). VMware Dynamic Power Management E.g. Click here for VMware's direction to transition from ESX to ESXi. Unified CCX Peripheral Gateway) and deployment model (e.g. OVAs for ESXi 5.x include vmv7 and vmv8). Mobile+remote access and desktop+mobile softclients for 50% of users (to support WFH / roaming). Not supported. Cisco recommendation is to apply the latest patches and updates recommended by VMware and your hardware vendor. The following applies to any use of vMotion with UC apps: See VMware Consolidated Backup for what is supported. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. For simplicity, this example will use a pair of Intel Xeon 6242 CPUs (16C/2.8 GHz) which will support all applications' "large" capacity points ("medium" for Expressway) in this example. Minimum required memory is ~50GB. Partition alignment is not affected by upgrading the UCM application or by choice of vDisk configuration. Old versions of Call Manager (CUCM) were running on Windows Servers. VMware vSphere ESXi is mandatory for all virtualized deployments of Cisco Collaboration applications, and is the only supported hypervisor. No reboot is required. Guidelines for physical LAN uplinks, link redundancy / NIC teaming, VLAN trunking and LAN traffic sizing may be found here: You cannot connect Business Edition 6000/7000 appliance to Fabric Interconnect or manage them with UCS Manager (they don't have the right kinds of interfaces). Customers can use these multiple NICs for VM network traffic, VMware console access, or management "back-doors" for administrative access, backups, software updates or other traffic that is desired to be segregated from the VM network traffic. Softswitches E.g. I want to make sure your virtual deployment of Cisco UC on Nutanix is successful! Moving a shut down VM during a maintenance window, i.e. When deployed on a BE6000S server and version is 10.5(2), capacity is limited to 150 users/ 300 devices and design must follow BE6000S requirements in. Which method to use: Early versions of the Collaboration applications required a COP file in order to upgrade the VMware Tools. VMware Hot Add The use of the wrong method almost certainly will fail and at worst may corrupt your virtual machine. Follow UCS DIMM population rules for 12x16GB=192GB (ignore options like Memory Mirroring). See. Customers who wish to add additional vcpu and/or additional vram beyond this minimum to improve performance may do so, but note the following: IOPS and Storage System Performance Requirements. VMware Data Recovery For contribution to cluster's shared storage, follow guidelines for Cisco HyperFlex: Select a dedicated high-performance storage controller. Please note the following caveats: Not supported. Your design/results may vary. This VM size can be used when performing a DRS migration from a non-virtualized/physical server with a disk capacity of 80 GB or less (e.g. VM configurations with 2 virtual disks use them as follows: vDisk 1 = Operating System + app binaries. ESXi 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5). NOTE: support varies by app and version. Not supported. must show as supported on the VMware Compatibility Guide for the UCM ESXi version. 1 Customers seeking capacity increases should migrate all cluster nodes to a higher fixed capacity point as described in the, All cluster nodes must get the same vCPU/vRAM increase. Requires SAN storage. Unsupported Infrastructure / Virtualization Software Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. I.e. Setting up software at a staging location to be later moved or deployed elsewhere. 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