Cisco UC infrastructure and other VMs on one server

[Igor Gaydarov]

Hi all,

I remember some case with Cisco TAC when I had problems with my CUCM.

I had some other virtual machines (not UC and not Cisco) with my CUCM VM on the same ESXi host, and an engineer said that it is not actually appropriate. According to his words any non-Cisco UC VMs, except vCenter are not allowed to be installed on the host.

However, I can't find any official information about it. Does anyone know where can I find some documents where it is mentioned? 

Thank you for help.

Best Regards,

Igor

[Chris Deren · Accepted solution]

Check out 

Application Co-residency Support Policy

on these pages:

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_Virtualization_Sizing_Guidelines#Application_Co-residency_Support_Policy

[Jaime Valencia]

No, that is not necessarily true, even with the Cisco OEM ESXi licenses you can install many other apps

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/BE6000/Coresidency/11-x/BE6K_coRes.html

If you provide your own ESXi licenses you bought directly from VMWare, then you would get FULL co-res (from the link Chris provided), even on a 6K  or 7K. Exception being the 6KS as that one is limited to only 5 apps to choose from.

What ESXi license you have, and who you bought it from, is what determines this.