Cisco vTS conference resource for CUCM on third party HP blade

[saleem pc]

Hello,

We have Cisco CUCM 10.5 and ISR 4331 voice gateway. We are planning to buy few 8865 video IP Phones, how video conferencing can be done. the 8865 are small screen phones previously with PVDM3 video conference was possible what about PVDM4

We also got HP c7000 blade on VM Ware 6.5 ESXi, if we order vTS shall we install the OVA on HP VM, what else component required to make simple adhoc conference ? 

or is there any MCU still selling by Cisco ?

Many thanks in advance for your help

[Jaime Valencia]

PVDM's no longer support video conferencing.

If you want to use vTP, you also need Conductor and they're both phasing out in favor of CMS.

Engage with pre-sales so they can suggest you what would be required to buy.

[saleem pc]

Thanks alot

We already got uwl standard license. Conductor is included in uwl as per my understanding. 

Appreciate if you can advise is the conductor and vTP supprted on third party hardware ?

[Jaime Valencia]

Virtualization wiki has all that information, have you reviewed it?

[Patrick Sparkman]

Recommend you look at Cisco Meeting Server, as both Conductor and TelePresence Server are soon to be end-of-sale Feb 2018 (eos-eol-notice-c51-739456 and eos-eol-notice-c51-739457.html).  CMS is the replacement and recommended solution going forward, it can be run as a virtual appliance on pre-configured UCS or your own spec-based hardware.