CUCM vmotion

[Hythim Ali El Hadad]

Hi,

Is V-Motion is valid for CUCM when moving it to a new hardware?

Or I need to backup and install CUCM and restore the backup ? or is there any better path ?

Thanks

[Jaime Valencia]

Read here

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMware_Requirements

[Hythim Ali El Hadad]

Thanks

I see that it isn't supported for remote sites as long distance vmotion

but it is supported if they share the same SAN but when live , it'll affect the current calls

And we can shutdown and copy it but it will change the MAC address if not set manually

Is it ok or you see there is another precaution ?

Also can't we set the MAC manually after cucm installed, or can we modify it to the needed one after we copied it to the new server !!

Thanks

[Deepak Rawat]

Hythim , the MAC will definitely change if set to Automatic when you will move it to new hardware.There are no issues in setting the MAC to manual post moving it to the new destination HW.

Regards

Deepak

[Jaime Valencia]

That is wrong, the MAC address does not change when you vMotion or do a cold migration

https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc%2FGUID-D19EA1CB-5222-49F9-A002-4F8692B92D63_copy.html

The state information includes the current memory content and all the information that defines and identifies the virtual machine. The memory content includes transaction data and the bits of the operating system and applications that are in the memory. The defining and identification information stored in the state includes all the data that maps to the virtual machine hardware elements, such as BIOS, devices, CPU, MAC addresses for the Ethernet cards, chip set states, registers, and so forth.

[Deepak Rawat]

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMware_Requirements#Copy_Virtual_Machine

Regards

Deepak