CUCM on ESXi install

Hello,
I've made a new installation of CUCM 8.6 on VM with ova template in ESXi 5.0 host. Is it normally that on Xeon 5410 host with 2 allocated cores and 2gb RAM installation process takes veery long time? Even pre-install checksum validation takes about 10-20 minutes. All process takes about 2,5 hours. But the strange thing is that after succesfull installation CUCM works quite slow. Even the first start freezes on "Loading, please wait" screen for about 10-14 seconds. And that screen freezes every time you log in. Former employee that was working with telephony have installed cucm 8.5 on another VM and it runs much faster. Even on less hardware resources.
Did I miss something in installation? Maybe there is some pre-install configuration of VM needed to run cucm faster? Guy who installed 8.5 doesn't remember anything about this. In cucm on VM installation guide i haven't seen any advice.
Thank you.

Do you mean that if host processor will be 200MHz faster then CUCM performance will be amazingly higher?
Unlikely but you need to start this thread off with the disclaimer that you're playing in a lab and not having a production problem then. I have CUCM 8.6(2a)SU1 running on my MacBook with reasonable performance and it doesn't meet the CPU requirements either.
You could launch RTMT and see if there is a high IOWait which may suggest a HD IOPS performance issue; much of Informx is sequential write-oriented after all. Also, is that 4GB reserved for the VM; or, is the hypervisor swapping it as virtual memory? Slowness in Tomcat (e.g. "Loading, please wait..") is esspecially indicitive of memory shortages. I have seen that exact behavior when I forgot to add memory to an MCS server during an upgrade.

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Tech 1 I always install on the usb stick
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Hi Robert,
Just want to add a little more...
Currently: The only supported SD card size is 16GB.
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/white_paper_c11-718938.pdf
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For the part numbers:
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Cisco UCS C240 M3 - Spec Sheet
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10493/C240M3_SFF_SpecSheet.pdf pag :47
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This is a one Stop wiki for UC on UCS.
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_in_a_Virtualized_Environment
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/UC_Virtualization_Supported_Hardware#UC_on_UCS_Tested_Reference_Configurations
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/virtual/CUCM_BK_CA526319_00_cucm-on-virtualized-servers_chapter_00.html
I see that you have a lot of planning questions, why don;t you get in touch with the Planning, Designing and Implementation team,
http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/tools/pdihd.html#~five
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/products_configuration_example09186a0080b10d66.shtml
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/virtual/CUCM_BK_CA526319_00_cucm-on-virtualized-servers_chapter_00.html#CUCM_RF_D3A9AF42_00
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- There are lot of White papers,Install/Configure guide etc on Cisco.com as well as Vmware.com
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/virtual/CUCM_BK_CA526319_00_cucm-on-virtualized-servers_chapter_00.html
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- RAID 1 for HyperVisor and RAID 5/6 as Datastore is the way to go
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/whitepaper_c11-728200.html
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- Too many Variables
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- yes that can be done using CIMC Web gui.
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Hi
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Hello,
I have spent hours trying to figure out my problem, I am about to give up and try something else but thought I would throw this out there.
Host is windows 7
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I have LinuxMint installed on esxi via vSphere
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HW Platform : 7845H2
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Cylinders: 17562
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Cylinders: 17562
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