UC Valley: Install CUCM 10.0 and IMP

First, a little bit remind, in figures, this documents may contain some Chinese, but if you can find English version software, it does not matter.

Second, after EVC released UC8.0, Cisco recommended customer to use virtualized environment to develop UC projects. It’s worth speaking up, from 10.0, CUCM, as very core component of Cisco UC, no longer can be installed on MCS server. It needs VMWARE platform, so in this document, we use virtual machines based upon VSphere of VMWARE.

first step, we have to install a CUCM cluster.

There are three sites, two of which is branches, one headquarter. SB, SC for short name of branch 1 and 2.

For installing HQ and CUCM cluster, CUCM cluster is able to consist of up to 20 hosts. Super cluster even doubles this number. In this document, cluster in HQ contains three hosts, one publisher, and two subscribers.

HQ-CUCM-PUB,HQ-CUCM-SUB1，HQ- CUCM-SUB2.

After installing, in CLB10.X folder of VCenter:

Let’s install first CUCM in a cluster, which is a publisher:

Download OVA template using partner CCO account. For this version is CUCM 10.5

OVA template is small only hundreds KB. Make it clear. This file is for resources allocation. If you clearly know how many amount of CPU, memories, disk place the virtual machine will use, you don’t have to download this file at all. However, Cisco uses this method to simplify the procedure of installation because it may cause many problems, like failed to install software, unstable of function and more if there are some unreasonable parameters configured.

Therefore, in this lab, to install all virtual machines, we downloaded OVA templates unless the resources that OVA requires are not able to be achieved by my vcenter, in this case I will change some manually

Import OVA template

From here, we can see some customized properties and information in OVA file

Configure name and path of list

Assign user nodes, this size is dependent on resources ( CPU, memories and disk space). In fact, in the template Cisco provides, here is what we have to change. In this lab, we use smallest one.