Vmware Upgrade

[faisalakbar]

Hello Guys, 

We are upgrading the VMware on existing UCS "UCSC-C220-M3SBE" TRC 2 Current version of VMWare is ESXi 5.5.0,2068190
with Datastore: VMFS5. 

Applications running on the servers are below

CUCM System version: 11.5.1.10000-6
Cisco Unity Connection version: 11.5.1.11900-26  

As per virtualization link: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/uc_system/virtualization/virtualization-cisco-unified-communications-manager.html#v11.5

EXSI 6.5 with VMFS5 is supported with CUCM above version, but i don't under the word "Does not apply to ESXi version upgrades."

Note: we are not upgrading the CUCM, just Vmware upgrade.

Regards

Faisal Akbar

[Vaijanath Sonvane]

Hi,

If you are doing fresh install of CUCM version 11.5 on ESXi 6.5 (VMFS5 or 6) then it is recommended to use minimum OVA file version cucm_11.5_vmv8_v1.1.ova otherwise cucm_11.5_vmv8_v1.1.ova does not apply. 

[faisalakbar]

So in my case we are not touching CUCM, So we can use ESXI 6.5 with VMFS 5
right?

Another question, the same Vmware foundation or Hypervisor license key will
work from 5.5 to 6.5 ?

As PUT is not showing any QTYs, however contract covers the foundation
licenses.

[Vaijanath Sonvane]

Yes, you can use ESXi 6.5 with VMFS 5. For VMware foundation or Hypervisor license upgrade, you need to work with Cisco Licensing team.