uccx 8.5 Installation In Vmware

[Ayodeji Okanlawon]

Guys,

Has any succesfully installed uccx 8.5 in vmware player or workstation. I have tried to install several times using vmware player and each time I get an unhandled exception while redhat is formatting the filesystem. Does any know what are the requirements? Is it still 72GB/2GB RAM?

[Chris Deren]

No, it is 1x146 GB for the minimum deployment.  Reference the following page for UCCX virtuized OVA specs that you can follow:

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_Virtualization_Downloads_(including_OVA/OVF_Templates)#Cisco_Unified_Contact_Center_Express.2FCisco_Unified_IP_Intelligent_Voice_Response_.28IP_IVR.29

HTH,

Chris

[Ayodeji Okanlawon]

Chris,

Many thanks. Does this suggest that it cant be installed in vmware player or workstation. I believe the OVA templates are for Esxi servers..This is just for lab purposes as we do with cucm

[Aaron Harrison]

Hi

It's fine in workstation with 80gb single HDD (scsi 0:0) and 2gb. For testing only of course...

Aaron

[Ayodeji Okanlawon]

Aaron,

Excellent will try it again with 80GB. What do u use for the guest os..It detects red hat linux 4? Should I change it to 3..

[Aaron Harrison]

It's all RHEL 4 32-bit, aside from 8.6+ of CUCM which is RHEL 5

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[Ayodeji Okanlawon]

Guys,

I have come to a conclusion that I have a bad media. This is a media sent from Cisco sealed and delivered. Initially when I did a media check, it said it failed as the media contained too many errors. I tried to continue with the install but as expected I am not having any joy. When red had gets to formatting file system I get the error

" An unhandled exception has occured. This is most likely a bug. please copy the full text of this exception or save the crash dump to a floppy then file a detailed bug report agains anaconda at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla"

and then there is the long list of the error attached..here