Cisco Call Manager 6.1

[devingta]

I bought a lab version of CM 6.1. Are they any restrictions on what kinds of boxes they work on ? I know cisco recommends some of the HP boxes but i want to see if someone else has run this on other kind of boxes and what experience they have had with it. i want to use this for testing fax/T.38.

 

[bigchiefdan]

I am told that with 6.x you are restricted to the hardware that Cisco recommends. We tried and the software did a hardware test to determine the mfg and components. Of course it failed on the two new dell boxes that met the mem and processor requiremnts.

 

[ADB100]

The DVD install verifies the hardware it is being installed on and will fail unless its one of the approved servers. You have to be pretty specific as well - i.e. if the 'official' MCS server doesn't have two CPU's, however your HP or IBM equivalent does then it won't work.
There is a list here but I am not sure how up to date it is:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/hw/voiceapp/ps378/prod_brochure_list.html

New with CUCM 5.x & 6.x is support for VMWare as a Hardware Platform. I have never done this but apparently if the install detects a valid VMWare configuration then it will install but gives a warning that this should only be used in a test environment. Have a search on here as this has come up before.

HTH

Andy

 

[biglebowski]

I've installed 6 & 7 on vmware esx without any issues.

When I was born I was so suprised I didn't talk for 18 months

 

[DallasBPF]

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