CUCM 8.6 Installation on VMWare Workstation 9.X On windows 2008 R2

Hi
Iam trying to intall CUCM 8.6 on Vmware 9
i get installation fail, I have attached screenshot for your reference
what iam doing wrong ? is this possible to intall Windows 2008 R2 and Vmware 9 workstation ?
any advice will be helpfull to solve my issue.
OS : windows 2008 R2 64bit
Vmware : 9 workstation
Ram: 16GB
HDD : SATA 1TB
Processor : Xeon Quad Core.
Thanks
Balaji

Hi,
The host OS should not matter as that will not be visible to CUCM's hardware detection script, it's more likely that the guest OS choice (i.e. which variant of Redhat Linux) or physical CPU may not be compatable.
Normally when instaling CUCM you would use an OVA Tempalte when creating a CUCM VM using ESXi:
http://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=283782839&flowid=26422&softwareid=283088407&release=8.6(1)&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest
This has the the exact guest OS settings CUCM Expects, you could carry on with trial and error to see if you can homefully get the correct settings. The following information from the Cisco Wiki on virtualising CUCM may be a useful reference:
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMware_Requirements
Personally I recomend you bite the bullet and use ESXi, the free variant works a treat with CUCM, the main issue may be if your hardware is in-compatable (i.e. ESXi does not have the built-in drivers).
Thanks
Stephen Welsh
CTO
http://www.unifiedfx.com

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Driver "vmware"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "VMware Config"
InputDevice "VMware Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Issues
* open-vm-tools fails to stop during a shutdown or /etc/rc.d/open-vm-tools stop/restart
* most screen resolutions show 0Hz (although everything works correctly) and adding VertRefresh to xorg.conf produces a major error
* playback of flash video produces a sound artefact when starting - although I think this may be to do with the decoder rather than system
I've marked this as solved although I welcome any suggestions regarding these minor issues. The open-vm-tools one I can probably sort out but it's too late now to look into tonight
Last edited by andyxl987 (2009-08-04 00:21:03)

CUCM 8.6 Installation on VMWare Workstation 9.X On windows 2008 R2

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