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Installation and Upgrade Guide for Cisco Unified Presence Release 8.0 and 8.5
Chapter 2 Preparing to Install Cisco Unified Presence on a VMware Server
How to Run Cisco Unified Presence on ESXi 4.1
Migrating to Cisco UCS Blade Servers
Cisco Unified Presence supports VMware on Cisco UCS B-Series and C-Series Blade Servers. If you
migrate from Media Convergence Server (MCS) to a Cisco Unified Presence on VMware on Cisco UCS
B-Series Blade Server, follow the (high-level) steps described here.
Procedure
Step 1
Upgrade the MCS server to Cisco Unified Presence Release 8.x using the Cisco Unified Operating
System interface. See the Release Notes for specific upgrade information relating to this release.
Step 2
Perform a DRS backup on the MCS server. Cisco Unified Presence does not support USB tape drive
backup on a VMware server.
Step 3
Import the OVF template, and create the virtual machines on the UCS server.
Step 4
Power off the MCS server.
Step 5
Install Cisco Unified Presence Release 8.x on the virtual machine, and then perform a DRS restore to
restore the data backed up from the MCS server to the Cisco Unified Presence on VMware on the UCS
server.
Note
Cisco Unified Presence does not support USB tape drive restore on a VMware server.
Step 6
Obtain the license MAC value, and then request the licenses for your new VMWare sever.
Step 7
Upload the new licenses to the VMware server.
Step 8
Manually remove the original invalid license files and restart the license manager
Related Topics
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Supported OVA Templates, page 2
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Release Notes for Cisco Unified Presence
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Cisco Unified Operating System Maintenance Guide for Cisco Unified Presence
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Changing the IP Address and Hostname for Cisco Unified Presence
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Disaster Recovery System Administration Guide
How to Run Cisco Unified Presence on ESXi 4.1
For information about how to run Cisco Unified Presence on ESXi 4.1, see the corresponding procedures
in the
Unified Communications Manager on Virtualized Servers
document. The steps for running
Cisco Unified Presence on ESXi 4.1 are identical to the steps for running Cisco Unified
Communications Manager on ESXi 4.1.