CUCM 7.1.3 on VMware ESXi v4 - Problems

[morningstiffy]

Hi,

I'm having problems loading on CUCM 7.1.3 onto VMware ESxi 4.

I've created a virtual machine with the following:
80G disk space
2048 RAM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (64bit) also tried Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64bit)and Red Hat Linux Other (64bit)
Uploaded the ISO to the datastore and ticked the box to connect at power on.

Basically the CUCM is loaded after I enter all the normal IP addressing, hostname, DNS etc etc
When all the software packages are loaded (314 of them I think) a blue screen appears and I'm unable to do anything else. So I disconnect from the datastore and power off the virtual machine. Upon a reboot it says there is an error and it need to be restarted. Rebooting again brings up the same message.

Anyones help or thoughts are much appreciated.

Billy

 

[fieryhail]

Firstly, as I'm sure you know CUCM 7.x is unsupported on ESX. I believe that ESX4 is a supported platform for CUCM 8.

Aside from that, I've run CUCM 7 in a lab environment using ESX v3.5. Why are you running RHEL 4 or 5 with 64-bit? I don't understand especially as you are only using 2GB RAM in your virtual server.

Try choosing the OS Type as RHEL version 3 32-bit. The rest of your settings look fine. Please post afterwards if the error keeps occurring.

 

[morningstiffy]

I've got it all working now using the settings in my first post above.

I turned off my wireless on my laptop that was using the same subnet as the vmware (doh!)

 

[woodie77]

Whats the impact of the Subnet of the WLAN adapter on your Laptop on the ESXi System ? Did you run ESXi on your Laptop ?
Assuming that you did install ESXi on a seperate system
where is the impact of the WLAN subnet to your ESXi system ?