Prime Collaboration Deployment on BE7000

[JEFFREY GODDARD]

We have purchased a pair of Business Edition 7000 servers to host our UC applications and migrate / upgrade them from the current MCS environment.  During the pre-upgrade preparations to use Prime Collaboration Deployment for the migration, it was discovered that the Cisco UC Virtualization Hypervisor does not support PCD.  Is it possible to obtain an upgrade to Cisco UC Virtualization Foundation?

[JEFFREY GODDARD]

To resolve this, I contacted my Cisco partner and ordered R-VMW-UC-FND5-K9, Cisco UC Virt. Foundation 5.x (2-Socket) license for each of the BE-7000 servers.  Upon receipt of the Activation Codes, using the vSphere client, select the host > Configuration > Licensed Features > Edit. Assign a new license key to this host.  I successfully assigned the license and proceeded with using PCD.

[valsakk_VMC]

Thank you so much for your answer. How did you migrate your licenses? Did you install stand alone Cisco PLM before your migration?

Thank you,

[JEFFREY GODDARD]

Licenses were migrated with the use of the License Count Utility (LCUZIP-Ver9.1.2.zip) that I ran  against my existing cluster. This resulted in a pre-upgrade license report of current licenses and license usage.  I sent report to licensing@cisco.com with the number of public space phones, and UCSS/ESW or SO number.  Then I installed a stand alone Cisco PLM prior to migration and applied the converted license file received from Cisco Licensing using PLM > Licenses > Fulfillment.  Following the migration of the UC cluster, I added the CUCM and Unity Connection using Product Instances.  I hope this helps. 

[valsakk_VMC]

Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Did you install PLM and PCD on UCS appliances or you used different VM?

[JEFFREY GODDARD]

I created new VMs on the same ESXi hosts and deployed the PLM and PCD OVAs.