Creating a Collaboration Lab

[nicholasacook]

I am looking at creating a Collaboration Lab at work.  My goals is to test functions/upgrades/current issues, etc.  I have a couple of older UCS servers that my current Collaboration environment upgraded from, but my main issue would be after I built the lab, I know that I will only have about 60-90 days for the "trial license" in say CUCM, then after that no further changes can be made to the system.  

My question is does Cisco have some way to setup a small lab (10-20 users/phones) so we can perform testing in a development style environment, or is the only way is to purchase production license?  

Systems I am looking to have in the lab/development environment:

CUCM version 10.5

Unity version 10.5

IM&P version 10.5

UCCX version 11.6

One of the main reason for the lab is to test upgrades and then also want to test possible future possible enhancements.  

[silvervoip]

I strongly suggest you to get in touch with local Cisco office or Cisco partner company.

They may be provide you temporary lab environment or can provide you most accurate information.

I also can suggest you to rent lab (you must pay as 3rd party hosting company will help you) so you can do your labs.

Also, please check here https://dcloud.cisco.com/

Best Regards,

//Please rate helpful comments//

[Mike_Brezicky]

You can sign up for DevNet and access their sandbox labs.
https://developer.cisco.com/docs/sandbox/#!collaboration/overview

They may not provide 100% of what you need, but will be able to test out functionality and certain scenarios as needed.