E.g. Like the BE7000H (M5), we will also spec dual quad-port 1GbE NICs to provide extra links and accommodate typical needs for NIC teaming and/or VLAN trunking. See VMware Consolidated Backup for what is supported. click to download OVA file, * See mouse-over column heading for details. See vMotion for what is supported. VMware Data Recovery the recommendations above only apply to single cluster deployments. 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. Use the following procedure to perform this upgrade. Amazon Web Services [AWS], Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and others are not supported). Softswitches Cisco Collaboration apps do not specifically regress physical or virtual networking infrastructure. Like the BE7000M (M5), we will also spec dual quad-port 1GbE NICs to provide extra links and accommodate typical needs for NIC teaming and/or VLAN trunking. you want to upgrade from 5.0 to 5.0 U3. BE7000M (M5) appliance uses Intel Xeon 6132 CPU (14C/2.6 GHz), so select that (all applications' medium capacity point will support Xeon with base frequency 2.60 GHz). Virtualization for Unified CM IM and Presence, VM Configuration Requirements E.g. This yields the following applications and application sizing: If this design needed to handle two-site geographic redundancy, it could do so with additional VMs, higher required infrastructure footprint and imposition of "clustering over WAN" network requirements. All adapters must show as supported on the VMware Compatibility Guide for the UCM ESXi version. Calling & Messaging NOTE: support varies by app and version. a "cold migration" or "host to host migration", is not vMotion and is supported. 9.0(1) and later Log into the ESXi host or its vCenter with vSphere Client. This section provides the IOPS data for a Cisco Unified Communications Manager system under load. I.e. CUCM Real Time Monitoring - Trace Collection, Alerts, System Overview. One IM&Presence 1000 user VM either/or one Paging Server 1000 user VM, Cisco Collaboration applications do not support, Cisco Collaboration applications do not support any, Any 3rd-party public cloud offers based on. 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. See vMotion for what is supported. Always enable hyperthreading in the hardware BIOS if it is present to enable. Finally once the applications ran on newer embedded OS versions, it became possible to support automatic tools upgrades. See Business Edition 6000 or 7000 Installation Guide. Virtual Machine Version (vmv) These migrations require backing up the application, reinstalling on a new OVA file, and and restoring the application. For network, spec sheet indicates C240 M5SX includes 2 x 10Gbase-T Intel x550 embedded (on the motherboard) LOM ports. you want to upgrade from 5.0 to 5.0 U3. E.g. 9.0 and later 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). End of support - no version upgrades available. Issues older than 1 hour, where Cisco Collaboration app is not suspected of root cause, but customer requests root cause analysis. Step 3 The process will take a few minutes. VM can be installed on DAS and source/destination physical servers can have different DAS yet still vMotion the VM. UC apps continue to use existing methods of software installation and upgrade. 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. End of support no version upgrades available. VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) Previous Versions of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) to Version 12.5. Assume blade will boot ESXi and applications from shared storage, so no local storage or RAID controller is required. MCS-7825-H2). It is important to understand that the UC application is not tied to the version of ESXi it is running on. take a software backup Failovers to other servers must not result in an unsupported deployment model (e.g. File Deploy OVF Template, eg: \OVA-ISO\cucm_10.5_vmv8_v1.8.ova; Right click virtual machine, EDIT virtual machine settings, and insert a Boot CD! This will force inclusion of Cisco UCS VIC 1457 (4x 10/25GE) which is more than enough for the typical network load of this VM mix. HDD pairs not recommended unless the environment is very small (few 100 devices or less). OVAs for ESXi 5.x include vmv7 and vmv8). Two appliances are sufficient to provide hardware redundancy. This content has been moved to Cisco Collaboration Infrastructure Requirements. Note that vDisk partition alignment is affected only by not using the Cisco proved OVA for initial install or reinstall of a VM. Caveated Support for VMware CPU Reservations and Distributed Resource Scheduler). 93-98% of total IO is "sequential writes" with an IO block size of 4 kilobytes. Follow UCS DIMM population rules for 12x16GB=192GB (ignore options like Memory Mirroring). NOTE: support varies by app and version. 1 device per user It is important to understand that the UC application is not tied to the version of ESXi it is running on. Required VM count for software redundancy will fit on pair of blade servers. 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. 3rd-Party Physical To Virtual (P2V) Migration Tools 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. Virtualization Jungle . See also VMware Data Recovery and Copy Virtual Machine. Collaboration apps are mission-critical, resource-intensive and latency-sensitive. VMware Feature Support for Contact Center. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) 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. Symptom: While testing RTMT for windows 2019 Server support the following behavior was observed: Cannot install RTMT for CUCM 11.5SU6 and higher on Windows Server 2019 The following errors may be seen: "The selected application is not a valid Java Virtual Machine for this installation" or "Flexeraaw_@aaa: Windows DLL failed to load Conditions: moving VM from ESXi host A to ESXi host B in another chassis, closet, building, etc. For convenience this will be called the "app's ESXi version". Cisco recommendation is to use the latest Maintenance release supported by the hardware vendor. Not supported. Not supported for other applications. Used to preserve the state of a VM without copying or creating additional VMs, effectively as a backup/restore or reversion technique. In ESXi 5.1+ vMotion allows "DAS to DAS", i.e. Adding vRAM is supported but requires VM to be shutdown first. Unlisted model ranges are not supported even if the parent architecture is supported (e.g. Required VM count for software redundancy will fit on three blade servers per site. Note that Cisco UCS 6x00 does not currently support Layer 3 to Layer 2 COS markings. E.g. Here are some example questions: Will Cisco support this? Values greater than 2ms may cause performance problems. is not supported (similar to moving from a more powerful server to a less powerful server, such as MCS 7845 ? DMZ infrastructure not included in example hardware BOMs. If the UC app is listed as "Supported with Caveats", then support is as described below: 2 or 3 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). Some virtualized UCS servers are configured with multiple physical NICs (see UCS page at http://www.cisco.com/go/swonly). This page has been updated to reflect compatibility with the latest M5 hardware. BE7000H (M5) appliance uses dual Intel Xeon 6132 CPU (14C/2.6GHz). Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. 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. A Cisco Collaboration app will only specify a MAXIMUM maintenance release if there are known incompatibilitites. 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. You'll end up with a running copy of Communications Manager. Scheduled uploads are around 250 IOPS for Publisher's VM only. VMware vMotion Disks must be supported by the hardware vendor. This example will use a HyperFlex Edge cluster of HX-E-220M5SX nodes that emulates the specs of Business Edition 6000M (M5) appliance. 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. NOTE: support varies by app and version. 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. Unified CCE and the storage array itself, HyperFlex shared storage: HXDP software and controller VMs, the network between HX cluster nodes, and each node's cache / system / capacity disks. Redundant physical network access links (e.g. Long Distance vMotion Cisco Collaboration applications do not support VMware vSphere ESX, only ESXi. Cisco Collaboration apps will explicitly indicate which Major/Minor versions they support (e.g. in a maintenance window, not in production, not processing live traffic. A Collaboration application may not support every feature in a given Major/Minor version of VMware vSphere ESXi. E.g. VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1 introduced a new setting called "Large Receive Offload (LRO)". Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. 9.0 and later E.g. take a software backup 3rd-party-provided softswitches (e.g. Cisco Collaboration apps do not consult on or debug virtual switch configuration outside of networking guidance in design guides. Not supported. Note that Cisco Unified Communications applications upgrades, patches and updates can not be delivered through VMware Update Manager. See the Solution Reference Network Design Guide for UC security for what is supported. 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. . Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. 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). For details on "legacy" virtualization support (i.e. If you use vCenter, then unless otherwise indicated, Cisco applications do not require their own dedicated vCenter. Cisco Collaboration apps do not require or even use most of the new features in new vmv versions (e.g. Cisco 7800 Series Media Convergence Server) to UC on UCS, the supported procedure is: See VMware High Availability for what is supported. 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 Cisco HyperFlex. For a given application/release, use ONLY the supported method(s) to upgrade the tools. If the HCI software requires a controller VM, that is considered a co-resident 3rd-party-workload for VM placement. Component & Capacity Point. I have nearly a decade of experience designing, installing, and troubleshooting Cisco Unified Communications systems of all sizes. Remember each HyperFlex cluster node runs an HXDP Controller VM. A Cisco Collaboration app will only specify a MAXIMUM maintenance release if there are known incompatibilitites. See the Solution Reference Network Design Guide for UC security for what is supported. CDR/CMR via CDR Analysis and Reporting (CAR). Cisco physical / virtual networking infrastructure is presumed transparent to Collaboration workloads. See Resize Virtual Machine instead. This will be sufficient for the typical network load of this VM mix. 9.1(1) and later Refer to the VMware documentation for requirements to use this feature. VMware vShield Values consistently greater than 20-30ms are frequently performance problems for typical applications. Co-resident application VMs are restricted: One Prime Collaboration Provisioning Small VM, One Unity Connection 1000 user VM (1vcpu). 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. 10.0 and later They are more sensitive to infrastructure issues like latency, ESXi scheduler VM swaps, interruptions/freezes, "IO blender", "noisy neighbor", etc. All these uses are supported for UC but note that UC apps like CUCM and UCCX only support a single vNIC with a single IP address. Examples of the unsupported architectures are non-Xeon (Pentium, Celeron, etc. 3rd-Party Physical To Virtual (P2V) Migration Tools. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. Old versions of Call Manager (CUCM) were running on Windows Servers. E.g. Peripheral Gateway) and deployment model (e.g. VM can be installed on DAS and source/destination physical servers can have different DAS yet still vMotion the VM. For older ESXi releases, the VMFS is transparent to Cisco Collaboration apps, but recommend using the latest version offered for the major/minor version of VMware vSphere ESXi you are deploying on. Cisco physical / virtual networking infrastructure is presumed transparent to Collaboration workloads. For latency/performance, rule of thumb would be 10 disks (1 HDD per physical CPU cores), but BE6000 testing has shown 6 will be enough for typical app/VM mixes at this capacity point. Existing UC app methods of backing up the software continue to be supported. Different app performance is likely on CPUs of same base frequency but different generations. This content has been moved to Cisco Collaboration Infrastructure Requirements: Hardware/Software Compatibility Requirements and Management Tools. For guide to abbreviations, see At a Glance table at, http://www.cisco.com/go/virtualized-collaborationd, UC on UCS Specs-based and Spec-based 3rd-party infrastructure, Click here for VMware's direction to transition from ESX to ESXi, Hardware/Software Compatibility Requirements, Cisco Collaboration Infrastructure Requirements, http://www.cisco.com/go/virtualized-collaboration, Virtualization Guide for Cisco Unified ICM/Contact Center Enterprise & Hosted 7.5(3), this vmware.com KB article for compatibility for ESXi version with vmv version), Support for Virtualization on the ESXi/UCS Platform, See Storage Requirements for Specs-based hardware support, Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client, www.cisco.com/go/virtualized-collaboration, Caveated Support for VMware CPU Reservations and Distributed Resource Scheduler, http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/comments/cisco_and_vmware_validated_architecture_for_long_distance_vmotion/, http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns836/white_paper_c11-557822.pdf, http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2016565. 9.0 and later 9.x Which VMs are active, and how many are active simultaneously, depends on how the CUCM cluster nodes are setup with respect to service activation, redundancy groups, etc. 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. 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. Required VM count for software redundancy will fit on pair of BE6000M (M5) appliances. Cisco Emergency Responder Three HyperFlex nodes per site are sufficient to provide hardware redundancy. To date, Cisco has not discovered any issues with Collaboration apps due to a newer vmv 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. New installs of 9.1 and above must use 1x110 GB vDisk. With a particular supported major/minor version (such as ESXi 5.1) 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 apps only require vmv4 functionality, so a newer vmv is usually transparent. UCM cluster nodes require fixed capacity points with fixed-configuration VMs in the Cisco-provided OVA for UCM. restore from backup This example will use a HyperFlex Edge cluster of HX-E-220M5SX nodes that emulates the specs of Business Edition 7000M (M5) appliance. See the tables below. Not supported. Does not protect vs. faults with the SAN or network hardware. You must also follow any compatibility instructions from your hardware providers for the server model, network elements and storage system you are using. click to download OVA file for this version, Supported Hardware (Latest) 1R/2RU, hybrid storage vs. all-flash are all permitted. Set the following parameters from 1 to 0: Reboot the ESXi host to activate these changes. When deployed on a BE6000S server, minimum supported version is 10.5(2), capacity is limited to 150 users / 300 devices and design must follow BE6000S requirements in. Virtualization Software Requirements - Required vs. Long Distance vMotion NOTE: support varies by app and version. Does not protect vs. faults with the SAN or network hardware. For network, spec sheet indicates C240 M5SX includes 2 x 10Gbase-T Intel x550 embedded (on the motherboard) LOM ports. See the documentation for the UC application software or UC appliance software to see what is supported. VM Configuration Requirements The Cisco VoIP/CCME section aims to provide a solid VOIP configuration reference guide to the VoIP community. For a given capacity point (such as the 10K user VM), the virtual hardware specs represent the minimum for that capacity point. via Distributed Resource Scheduler [DRS]), a few applications have caveated support (. You must follow any compatibility instructions from your hardware/software providers for the server model, network elements and storage system you are using. Application versions will define minimum required vmv. vCPU/vRAM increases alone do not increase supported capacity, max density per cluster node or max scale per cluster. The following applies to any use of vMotion with UC apps: UCCE has application-specific VM placement rules, vs. UCM's rules. Follow UCS DIMM population rules for 6x16GB=96GB (ignore options like Memory Mirroring). CPU power-saving features that do "CPU throttling" are not supported. May only be done during a maintenance window with UC VMs shut down. See the documentation for the UC application software or UC appliance software to see what is supported. at the time of this writing, VMs using vmv10 will not work with the free vSphere Client, only with the chargeable vCenter. If purchased from and supported by Cisco (e.g. The task should then be complete and the tools should be shown as "OK". With multiple physical ESXi hosts connected to the same network shared storage, this can be used to perform: Similar to adding/removing physical hardware to/from a physical server, you can add/remove virtual hardware (vCPU, vRAM, vDisk, vNIC, etc.) if you have more than 10,000 users in Cisco Unified Communications Manager, you must use the 5,000 user OVA template at a minimum, even if you plan to license less than 5,000 users of IM and . Unified/Packaged Contact Center Enterprise have application-specific co-residency independent of physical CPU. See also VMware Data Recovery and Copy Virtual Machine. This feature effectively provides a method to do full system backup/restore, take system images or revert changes to software versions, user data and configuration changes. Rack mounting / cable management hardware may be selected. See Cisco network and datacenter Preferred Architectures for best practices on network element selection and configuration. Virtual Appliance Packaging of UC apps 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. NOTE: support varies by app and version. 1 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. NOTE: support varies by app and version. Cisco Expressway is supported bare-metal on CE1200 appliance; Cisco Meeting Server is supported bare-metal on CMS 2000 appliance). fresh install 8.x software on VMware / UC on UCS VMware Dynamic Power Management May only be done during a maintenance window with UC VMs shut down. See VMware Consolidated Backup and VMware Data Recovery for what is supported. Introduction to Cisco Unified Communication Manager. 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. All apps and ESXi will boot from this volume. New installs of 9.1 and above must use 1x110 GB vdisk. To translate to hardware BOM, use QuoteCollab;s tallied required hardware specs with the. If ESXi 6.5, all applications support VMFS5 but only some support VMFS6 (check each application's virtualization page for details). fresh install 8.x software on VMware / UC on UCS Required VM count for software redundancy will fit on pair of rack servers. 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. See each Collaboration application's documentation for any Release 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. Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) P2V tools are not supported. For details on "legacy" virtualization support (i.e. 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. Also always ensure a DRS backup of the Cisco Collaboration applications is available in case there are issues with the replicated VMs. a "cold migration" or "host to host migration", is not vMotion and is supported. Basic understanding of CUCM , IM&P & Cisco unity connection version (N-1). Was only sold as 6.x. Before reading the best practices below, verify support at Supported Editions and Features of VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware vCenter and VMware vSphere Client. UCM 12.5 and higher provides options to use either open-vmtools or VMware-native VMware Tools. VMware.com comparison of vSphere editions (available on this web page at time of this writing: General-purpose licenses may be customer-provided instead of purchased from Cisco. VMware vMotion All these uses are supported for UC but note that UC apps like CUCM and UCCX only support a single vNIC with a single IP address. Required VM count for software redundancy will fit on 2 HX Edge nodes. upgrade to 8.x software version on the bare-metal server 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 the UC app is listed as "Partial" support, then support is "maintenance mode only" as described below: Redundant power supplies will be used, as well as a rack-mount kit. 4K max phones per cluster You can run a 3rd-party RAID calculator to double-check if four RAID5 volumes each with 6x300GB will accommodate. Specifically for Cisco Unified Attendant Consoles, this means the CUxAC VM must not be doing any Hot Swap or taking any active calls, with no active Directory Synchronization in progress. ), SAN/NAS shared storage: adapter for storage access, the transport network (FC, iSCSI, NFS, etc.) VMware Boot from SAN Updates are performed automatically. No = the feature is not supported at this time - see Best Practices for alternatives, if any. Cisco recommends to power off the VMs before the SAN replication occurs. 10.5 and later Not supported. 93-98% of total IO is "sequential writes" with an IO block size of 4 kilobytes. E.g. 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. CPU requirements are different for CMS on dedicated hardware vs. CMS on shared hardware. Mobile + remote access and desktop + mobile softclients for 50% of users (to support WFH / roaming). 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. Step 1 From the vSphere Client log in to vCenter, or your ESXi host, and go to the Hosts and Clusters view (Ctrl+Shift+H). UCM cluster nodes require fixed capacity points with fixed-configuration VMs in the Cisco-provided OVA for UCM. 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. 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). Cisco recommendation is to use the latest Maintenance release supported by the hardware vendor. BE6000M (M5) appliance uses Intel Xeon 4114 CPU (10C/2.2GHz). 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. 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. 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