CCX8 and VMware

[richb1971]

Hi,

For the purposes of a lab is it possible to install CCX8 on VMware Workstation? Mine keeps failing

Rich

[phooghen]

No because the UCCX installation check for the HW requirements (see below).

Introduction of support for running UCCX on VMware ESXi 4.0. Only one virtual machine configuration is supported:

• 2 vCPU
• 4GB vRAM
• two 146GB scsi disks at scsi id 0:0 and 0:1
• VMware virtual machine version 7

[Tanner Ezell]

What hardware specs are you giving your VM? I believe you need 72gb

hard drive space and 2gigs of ram else it will fail a platform check.

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:05 AM, richb1971

[Clifford McGlamry]

Yes it will work.  The specs provided by others are necessary if you're going to use it in a production environment (UC on UCS), but for a lab, the setup

below will work:

2 GB RAM

2 x 80 GB SCSI HD at 0:0 and 0:1

2 CPU

You MUST reset the SCSI BUS type to LSILogic (default is BUSLOGIC...this will cause the install to fail).

Load it as a 32 bit Red Hat Linux version.

Mine is on VMWare Server, but the same setup should work.  Screen shot of my working lab box attached.

Cliff

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[Mustapha Arakji]

Changes in the VMware as in the attachment worked, UCCX 8.5 is installing...

Thanks,

[joesnyde]

Hi Rich,

Have you just tried using the VM (OVA) template that is provided from the CCO site?

http://www.cisco.com/cisco/software/release.html?mdfid=270569179&softwareid=280840578&release=8.0(2)&rellifecycle=&relind=AVAILABLE&reltype=all

Regards,

Joe