This is a follow-up to my original tutorial about installing a CUCM8 on VMware fusion running on your Macbook Pro. You can follow that tutorial for everything but the only thing you have to watch out for will be the Processors, RAM and hard disk specs.
Cisco recommends that Unity Connection needs a minimum of 2 cores, 2GB RAM and 200GB hard drive space. Well I tried working with that but it didn’t give me an option to install Unity Connection.
I ended up playing around with options until I found the one that works. Now either you can go the same route or just use the specs below. You can change the processors and RAM but hard drive cannot be changed once the VM has been built.
- Processors – 4 Cores
- RAM – 6GB
- HDD – 300GB
Once the install finishes you can change the processors and RAM.
Goodluck with your install and let me know if you have any questions!
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I was thinking about building a lab using a new Mac Mini instead buying a C200 with CUCMBE on it. Mainly for noise, power and consolidation reasons. Do you know if I can run CUCM and Unity Connection on the same server with just 8GBs of RAM? The Mac Mini tops out at 8 and I dont think it would be enough if both VMs needed 4GBs. Thanks
I think you will be fine considering I ran CUCM and CUC on a macbook pro with 8gb ram. It might not be perfect but I don’t see any reason why it won’t work. IS this your home lab?
Yes this will be for a home lab so I can stay current on my CCVP cert. My main concern was the speed of the VM’s and I wasn’t sure if fusion would work with 8.6 either. I was looking at some of the OVA’s and the memory requirements are pretty intense.
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_Virtualization_Downloads_(including_OVA/OVF_Templates)#Unified_Communications_Manager
Memory requirements are crazy for sure but only for the install. Once installed you can scale it back to 2 or 4gb and the only downside I have seen is the warning message when you boot up the VM
Ofcourse this is not a recommended path for a customer site but for a lab it is all gravy. Let me know if you have any more questions or would like to blog about your experience here
Thanks. Ill let you know how it goes!