Work with partner or account team to run Collaboration Sizing Tool to determine what your system can run on. See also any application-specific rules. In ESXi 5.1+ vMotion allows "DAS to DAS", i.e. This feature migrates a live, running Virtual Machine (VM) from one physical server to another. If mixing capacity points in the same UCM cluster then the scale per cluster and the density per node continue to be limited to that of the lowest capacity point (as described in the design guide). Closest match that is compliant with application CPU Requirements is Intel Xeon 4210 (10C/2.2GHz). Minimum required memory is ~44GB for this examples VM mix, but during change management or outage mitigation, other VMs may need to run on the server which will drive up required RAM. User count based on: Cisco Collaboration apps will explicitly indicate which Major/Minor versions they support (e.g. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. Customers who want to use less storage space must use the 1x110GB vdisk and a reinstall plus restore from backup is required to change from 2x80GB to 1x110GB. VMware Data Recovery All apps and ESXi will boot from this volume. Softswitches Caveated Support for VMware CPU Reservations and Distributed Resource Scheduler). Cisco Collaboration applications do not support hypervisors that are not VMware vSphere ESXi (e.g. Plan to have 2+ hardware nodes for redundancy. NOTE: support varies by app and version. 9.0(1) to 11.6(1) VMware vMotion Cisco UCS servers use "soft media" such as ISO or FLP (virtual floppy) for procedures that require external media (such as installation and upgrade). Used to preserve the state of a VM without copying or creating additional VMs, effectively as a backup/restore or reversion technique. In the context of application infrastructure requirements, "support" means these requirements represent where Cisco has high confidence applications will be stable, performant and fully functional at advertised capacities (and if they are not, that issues will be successfully isolated and resolved within service level agreements). vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) This content has been moved to Cisco Collaboration Infrastructure Requirements: Cisco Collaboration apps will explicitly indicate which Major/Minor versions they support (e.g. Note that vdisk partition alignment is affected only by not using the Cisco-provided OVA for initial install or reinstall of a VM. Basic understanding of CUCM , IM&P & Cisco unity connection version (N-1). However, using this feature to patch and update the guest OS is only supported by some applications and some versions, this is what is shown on this page when referring to VUM support. Two blades are sufficient to provide hardware redundancy. This "customer convenience" feature provides easy migration of a live system from one SAN to another SAN. Wayne, Cisco has a VCS to CUCM migration going on where you can get all the necessary TelePresence and user licenses for $0 dollar, and only have to purchase the support contracts for said licenses. Virtual Appliance Packaging of UC apps The system reboots twice. Questions? OVAs for ESXi 5.x include vmv7 and vmv8). This document covers the Procedure for Dumping CUCM Fresh Install Logs - Virtualization Problem Description In order to dump install logs on a virtual UC installation, it is necessary to use a virtual serial port on the virtual machine. VMware Feature Support for Contact Center. UCM cluster nodes require fixed capacity points with fixed-configuration VMs in the Cisco-provided OVA for UCM. Not supported. Follow your shared storage array vendor's instructions for compatibility. restore from backup The vmv represents the version of virtual hardware. Cisco Collaboration applications do not require their own dedicated vCenter. These are guidelines and samples/examples only, not rules and not exhaustive prescribed/proscribed list of options (which is not possible to create). Here are some example questions: Will Cisco support this? Your design/results may vary. 9.0 CUCM Disaster Recovery System (DRS) - Backup and Restore, Manual and Automatic Schedule. Supported capacity and co-residency rules for UC must be followed before and after the migration. 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. Live runtime resizing via the VMware Hot Add feature is not supported. 3rd-party apps as long as rules on this page for VM placement and min hardware spec are followed for all applications. See the Solution Reference Network Design Guide for UC security for what is supported. Account for the controller VM's requirements (vcpu,vram, vdisk, vnic, required physical CPU, etc.) Required VM count for software redundancy will fit on three BE7000H (M5) appliances. moving VM from ESXi host A that has just had a server hardware or VMware failure to ESXi host B that is healthy. Regardless of processor base frequency, Xeon 5200/5100, 4200/4100, E5-2400 are not supported for deployments >1000 users or >2500 devices unless specifically indicated. VMware Cloud on Dell EMC VxRail, Amazon AWS Outposts, Microsoft Azure Stack, GKE On-prem and others are not supported). This feature migrates a live, running Virtual Machine (VM) from one physical server to another. Any 3rd-party public cloud offers based on VMware Cloud Foundation (e.g. See Resize Virtual Machine instead. VMware Tools Cisco-provided software releases that are not past their, Cisco-provided hardware/software with valid, paid-up maintenance contracts (e.g. Cisco Collaboration apps do not consult on or debug virtual switch configuration outside of networking guidance in design guides. Not supported. Requires SAN storage. Many people that I talk to are happy for this option, as VMware is quickly becoming an indispensable tool in the modern datacenter. To date this has never been the case, so if the hardware vendor supports it, it is allowed even if unlisted. Assume new buildout (no compute, storage or virtualization infrastructure exists yet for Collaboration). Follow your compute vendor's instructions for compatibility. Cisco 7800 Series Media Convergence Server) to UC on UCS, the supported procedure is: 1 NOTE: support varies by app and version. For real-time load-balancing of live UC VMs (e.g. The following are not recommended as tend to be too slow: SATA disks, SAS disks with <10kbps. See the Install and Upgrade guide for Cisco Unified Intelligence Center 11.0 and later for more details.) (see www.cisco.com/go/ucsrnd for details). See vMotion for what is supported. Used to preserve the state of a VM without copying or creating additional VMs, effectively as a backup/restore or reversion technique. Which method to use: Early versions of the Collaboration applications required a COP file in order to upgrade the VMware Tools. 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. VMware.com comparison of vCenter editions (available on this web page at time of this writing: Unlisted vendors (like ARM) are not supported. VMware Boot from SAN E.g. to/from a Virtual Machine (VM) via a software change in VMware's configuration interfaces. Cisco recommends to power off the VMs before the SAN replication occurs. Each HyperFlex node will require a HyperFlex Data Platform (HXDP) storage controller VM of 8vcpu, in addition to the application VMs. must show as supported on the VMware Compatibility Guide for the UCM ESXi version. If VSA is desired to be used as shared storage for a virtualized Cisco Collaboration deployment, it must meet the storage requirements for UC on UCS Specs-based or 3rd-party Server Specs-based (e.g. May only be done during a maintenance window with UC VMs shut down. 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. Assume Xeon 6126 which will support required applications' "medium" capacity point and VM configurations. Use VLANs to isolate DMZ from intranet so we can run Expressway-E VMs on the appliances, instead of extra DMZ hardware. VMware High Availability (HA) Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. Cisco Unity Virtualization Design Guide UCCE and CWMS have restrictions here). If purchased from and supported by Cisco (e.g. Cisco 7800 Series Media Convergence Server) to UC on UCS, the supported procedure is: Plan to have at least two hardware nodes for redundancy. This page has been updated to reflect compatibility with the latest M5 hardware. Updates are performed automatically. Medium/large systems require 2.50 GHz for deterministic support. The 1GE deployment models are insufficient to handle application VM vnic and vdisk traffic. (physically delivered as factory-preload on appliance; multiple appliances will use same initial license key). Unified CM(includes standalone ELM) Calling & Messaging See Business Edition 6000 or 7000 Installation Guide. Certain other virtualization features may mandate vCenter based on VMwares license editions. See also VMware Data Recovery and Copy Virtual Machine. Reminder that for applications to be supported on a storage system, it must meet application requirements for compatibility, latency, usable space and IOPS capacity. 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. VMware Fault Tolerance mandatory when deploying on UC on UCS Specs-based and Spec-based 3rd-party infrastructure. Otherwise disable LRO is optional. Monitor the virtual machine console from the vSphere Client to see the system status. 3rd-party-provided softswitches (e.g. Please note the following caveats: The 1,000 user VM configurations generates about 60 IOPS during steady-state. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. ), 3rd-party blade/rack compute with local DAS or 3rd-party SAN/NAS. Installing a Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) Server, Version 12.0Get Kevin's FREE Collaboration Mini-Coursehttp://kwtrain.com/6coresys=====. 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. Not supported. In this one, Jim shows. Click here for how to configure VMware vCenter to capture these logs. The following applies to any use of vMotion with UC apps: UCM, IMP and CUC have caveated support (see UC apps continue to use existing methods of software installation and upgrade. Follow HX DIMM population rules for 4x32GB=128GB. Also always ensure a DRS backup of the Cisco Collaboration applications is available in case there are issues with the replicated VMs. VMware Compatibilty Guide (http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl) for the the vSphere ESXi Major/Minor version supported by Cisco Collaboration. NOTE: support varies by app and version. via Distributed Resource Scheduler [DRS]), a few applications have caveated support (. Step 2 Choose the automatic tools update and press OK. Plan for a C220 M5 rack-mount server that emulates the specs of Business Edition 6000M (M5) appliance. Not supported. BE6000M (M5) appliance uses Intel Xeon 4114 CPU (10C/2.2GHz). VMware Fault Tolerance Migration of UC VMs that are live and processing live traffic is supported, but note that Cisco testing cannot cover every possible operational scenario. Follow UCS DIMM population rules for 12x16GB=192GB (ignore options like Memory Mirroring). is not supported (similar to moving from a more powerful server to a less powerful server, such as MCS 7845 ? Cisco Social Miner Before applying a VMware upgrade or update to a host, always verify compatibility with each Cisco Collaboration app (At a Glance table at, Note that use of VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1 requires disabling the "LRO" setting (. Cisco Collaboration apps do not require or even use most of the new features in new vmv versions (e.g. Cisco Collaboration apps do not consult on or debug virtual switch configuration outside of networking guidance in design guides. Always verify with server vendor that the update is compatible with server model's bios/firmware/driver state. For the particular VM mix in this example, could also have used dual Intel Xeon 6126 (12C/2.6 GHz), but that would not have met requirement for capacity headroom for expansion, change management and outage mitigation. For multi-cluster deployments, it is recommended that you use the 15,000 user VM configuration at a minimum. Not supported. I.e. HCL, latencies, application VM capacity and performance needs). Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. For real-time load-balancing of live UC VMs (e.g. Values consistently greater than 20-30ms are frequently performance problems for typical applications. See the tables below. Recall ESX and ESXi are architecture options for VMware vSphere releases prior to 5.0 (click here for a comparison). To migrate from bare-metal servers (e.g. 1K phones per VM 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. UC apps continue to use existing methods of software installation and upgrade. In ESXi 5.1+ vMotion allows "DAS to DAS", i.e. Cisco does not produce OVA files for newer vmv versions, or test newer vmv versions since VMware indicates these are backwards compatible. Requires SAN storage. Also always ensure a DRS backup of the Cisco Collaboration applications is available in case there are issues with the replicated VMs. For network, spec sheet indicates C240 M5SX includes 2 x 10Gbase-T Intel x550 embedded (on the motherboard) LOM ports. VMware Dynamic Power Management See VMware Consolidated Backup for what is supported. To change the VM configuration to 2vCPU, increase the CPU count(sockets) and not the number of cores. 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. Note that use of VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1 requires disabling the "LRO" setting (click here for details). No = the feature is not supported at this time - see Best Practices for alternatives, if any. Not supported. CUCM licenses are based on the number of TelePresence endpoints and Jabber Video licenses in your VCS environment. Fast manual server recovery, e.g. In the popup window choose Interactive Tools Upgrade. If the server is Cisco UCS, you may need to use a UCS-specific image for U3 on vmware.com. Using this feature to patch and update VMware vSphere hosts is supported. For details on "legacy" virtualization support (i.e. Migration of UC VMs that are live and processing live traffic is supported, but note that Cisco testing cannot cover every possible operational scenario. Supported Versions of VMware vSphere ESXi= 6.7, 7.0. . If you are migrating from a physical server with more than 80 GB of storage space to a virtual machine with a user deployment size of either 500 or 2,000, see the Disaster Recovery System Administration Guide for more information. a "cold migration" or "host to host migration", is not vMotion and is supported. Follow Business Edition 7000 ordering guide for quoting instructions (toplevel product ID BE7M-M5-K9). For simplicity, this example will use a pair of Intel Xeon 4114 CPUs (10C/2.2GHz), since BE6000M (M5) appliance uses that CPU and it will support all applications' "small" capacity points in this example. NOTE: support varies by app and version. Plan for single RAID5 volume. Different app performance is likely when comparing a CPU of newer generation / slower base frequency with a CPU of older generation / faster base frequency (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. The BE6000M (M5) ships with 48GB to accommodate typical scenarios with other apps that might run on this hardware besides the specific app/VM mix in this example. 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. VMware Fault Tolerance Any on-premises hybrid extensions of 3rd-party public cloud infrastructure (e.g. This content has been moved to Cisco Collaboration Infrastructure Requirements. E.g. Design assumptions, required applications, and application sizing. Unless otherwise indicated, Collaboration applications allow co-residency with other Cisco Collaboration apps, Cisco non-Collaboration apps and Any other type of public cloud offer (e.g. Minimum required memory is 30GB. Note Backup and restore for Cisco Collaboration applications are not supported on soft media. 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. Note: ESXi 6.0 only supports VMFS5. Not supported. A redundant power supply may be selected. Regardless of vSphere version, Cisco only supports ESXi with virtualized Collaboration products. Cisco CallManager, and Cisco TFTP, and Save. If VSA is desired to be used as shared storage for a virtualized Cisco Collaboration deployment, it must meet the storage requirements for UC on UCS Specs-based or 3rd-party Server Specs-based (e.g. Virtualization Jungle . NOTE: support varies by app and version. The Cisco VoIP/CCME section aims to provide a solid VOIP configuration reference guide to the VoIP community. 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. 2 For a given capacity point (such as the 10K user VM), the virtual hardware specs represent the minimum for that capacity point. 9.x Softswitches 3rd-Party VM-based Backup Tools Follow Business Edition 6000 ordering guide for quoting instructions (toplevel product ID BE6M-M5-K9). Here are some redirects to popular content migrated from DocWiki. Supported capacity and co-residency rules for UC must be followed before and after the migration. You'll end up with a running copy of Communications Manager. End of support - no version upgrades available. Recall ESX and ESXi are architecture options for VMware vSphere releases prior to 5.0 (. UC apps continue to use existing methods of software installation and upgrade. b. take a software backup This needs to be accounted for in VM Placement. Do not expect equivalence. VMware vShield Applications are sized with redundant VMs. take a software backup upgrade to 8.x software version on the bare-metal server For simplicity, this example will use a pair of Intel Xeon 6126 CPUs (12C/2.6GHz)which will support all applications' "medium" capacity points in this example. 11.5(1) and later The following applies to any use of vMotion with UC apps: For support clarifications on virtual network elements, see. BE7000H (M5) appliance uses dual Intel Xeon 6132 CPU (14C/2.6GHz). 7.x of UC apps with VMware vSphere on limited 3rd-party servers), see the following links: Click Add Trunk to create a new SIP trunk. VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1 introduced a new setting called "Large Receive Offload (LRO)". vSphere Data Protection (VDP) E.g. For real-time load-balancing of live UC VMs (e.g. VMware Snapshots Migration offer ends July 31st. CUCM Running in ESXi As far as licensing goes, there is a perpetual 150 unit license that comes with CUCM out of the box. in a maintenance window, not in production, not processing live traffic. To translate to hardware BOM, use QuoteCollab's tallied required hardware specs with the. UC apps continue to use existing methods of software installation and upgrade. Not supported. 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). b. Adding vRAM is supported but requires VM to be shutdown first. Physical examples (non-exhaustive) include Cisco route/switch/fabric products like Catalyst, ISR, ASR, ASA, Nexus, UCS Fabric Interconnects/Extenders, ACI, SDA, SD WAN. 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. VMware vCenter Converter Not supported. Existing UC app methods of backing up the software continue to be supported. Each HyperFlex node will require a HyperFlex Data Platform (HXDP) storage controller VM of 8vcpu, in addition to the application VMs. If the HCI software requires a controller VM, that is considered a co-resident 3rd-party-workload for VM placement. larger VMs, more virtual HW options, etc.). Step 1 Edit the VM settings by clicking on the Options tab, and select VMware tools. Previous Versions of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) to Version 12.5. destination server must align with supported co-residency after failover occurs). vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) This is a minimal VM configuration for use with Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution. Follow UCS DIMM population rules for 2x16GB=32GB (ignore options like Memory Mirroring). If mixing capacity points in the same UCM cluster then the scale per cluster and the density per node continue to be limited to that of the. I.e. HCL, latencies, application VM capacity and performance needs). Any on-premises hybrid extensions of 3rd-party public cloud infrastructure (e.g. Step 1 Edit the VM settings by clicking on the Options tab, and select VMware tools. Method Release See also VMware Data Recovery and Copy Virtual Machine. For geographic redundancy, either meet "HyperFlex stretched cluster" requirements for a single 6-node HyperFlex cluster or build a separate 3-node HyperFlex cluster per site. Embedded Host Client in ESXi 6.7) is sufficient. 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. If your deployment is not experiencing any issues, you are not required to change to 2 vCPU and may remain on 1 vCPU. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) MCS 7825). A Cisco Collaboration app will only specify a MAXIMUM maintenance release if there are known incompatibilitites. VMware vShield via Distributed Resource Scheduler [DRS]), a few applications have caveated support (see here for details); otherwise it is not supported. Enabling CAR continuous loading results in around 300 IOPS average on the system. For details on "legacy" virtualization support (i.e. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. May only be done during a maintenance window with UC VMs shut down. Different app performance is likely on CPUs of same base frequency but different generations. VSA is not really a "feature" but rather a storage product from VMware. VMware Snapshots See documentation of those applications for details. 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. Quote Collab tool may be used for assistance with planning applications on virtualized infrastructure. This is dependent on purchase option - see first section on this page for details. Assume WAN between sites already exists and satisfies applications clustering over WAN requirements. I have nearly a decade of experience designing, installing, and troubleshooting Cisco Unified Communications systems of all sizes. See the documentation for the UC application software or UC appliance software to see what is supported. Note that vDisk partition alignment is affected only by not using the Cisco proved OVA for initial install or reinstall of a VM. NOTE: support varies by app and version. 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). When deployment on a BE6000S server and version is 11.0 or higher, capacity is limited to 150 users/ 300 devices and design must follow BE6000S requirements in, vCPU/vRAM increases alone do not increase supported capacity, max density per cluster node or max scale per cluster. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. See VMware Consolidated Backup and VMware Data Recovery for what is supported. It is very important that the VMware tools version running in the UC application be in sync with the version of ESXi being used. To download the OVA files, refer to the Collaboration Virtualization Sizing guidelines. Adding vNIC is not supported unless the UC app supports multiple network connections with different IP addresses. Assume Xeon 6132 which will support required applications' "large" capacity point (medium for Expressway) and VM configurations. Virtualization for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) Version 14 Version 12.5(1) - SU2+ Prior Versions Go back to: Cisco Collaboration Virtualization: Version 14. This example will use a minimum build of 6x SAS 1.2 TB. See the 3rd-party's documentation (e.g. Please note the following caveats: You must also follow any compatibility instructions from the hardware provider(s). 3rd-Party Physical To Virtual (P2V) Migration Tools. Logical Cores do not increase the number of physical cores available to apps. for Cisco UCS, see the Server Compatiblity documents at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html. See vMotion for what is supported. E.g. Must be able to add IP phones, End users, CSS, Partition, Route pattern and Route Group etc. 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. Step 5 After installation of the new version of VMware Tools is complete, remove the VMware Tools tar file from the virtual CD/DVD drive. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. Cisco Collaboration apps only require vmv4 functionality, so a newer vmv is usually transparent. Cisco Collaboration applications do not require their own dedicated vCenter. In fact you can use the simplest virtualization tool from the whole VMware outfit and nowadays you can install CUCM even on VMware Player. Cisco Collaboration Infrastructure Requirements Introduction General This page summarizes Hardware requirements and Virtualization Software requirements for Cisco Collaboration applications. The only supported scenario is a manual move to a different server, e.g. I.e. Cisco TAC will isolate Collaboration app issues to the app or infrastructure. Cisco recommendation is to use the latest Maintenance release supported by the hardware vendor. For real-time load-balancing of live UC VMs (e.g. For multi-site scenarios, this may instead require "exporting" the VM. Failovers to other servers must not result in an unsupported deployment model (e.g. ), certain older Intel Xeon (any Nehalem or Westmere model), AMD older EPYC generations, AMD non-EPYC generations. In these videos we will. See also VMware Data Recovery and Copy Virtual Machine. Jabber - Create a Softphone Device on CUCM Cisco 319K subscribers Subscribe 167 22K views 2 years ago This is a video tutorial for creating a softphone device on Cisco Unified. 3rd-Party Physical To Virtual (P2V) Migration Tools "Maintenance mode only" - VMware vMotion by definition operates on live VMs, but the VM running the UC app must be "live but quiescent". E.g. Not supported. Unlisted architectures are not supported unless specifically indicated in this policy or by an application. All apps and ESXi will boot from this volume. 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