Upgrading ESX 4.1 and 5.1 with UC VMServers

I'm trying to find the documentation, guide or any details on this and have developed short on cisco.com and docwiki.cisco.com I hope that someone can point me in the right direction.

To simplify my question let say, we have a current ESX 4.1 environment with VM servers running the following applications: CUCM, CUPS, CUC, UCCX. (does it matter if they are running 8.5/8.6 or 9.1?)

If we were to move to ESX 4.1 to 5.1 What is the impact on the servers of Cisco? What are the procedures? Anything specific Cisco or a development warn that must be taken into account? And especially (can not find the answer to anywhere) we must redeploy the OVAs (from v7 to v8 to match) during and after the ESX upgrade?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

From:

http://docwiki.Cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMware_Requirements

Correction and update of VMware vSphere, ESXi

  • In general, versions of Cisco Collaboration app mandate only the major and minor of ESXi versions they demand / support.
  • Guest OS support - Cisco's Collaboration applications that require a minimum Maintenance release (e.g. "5.1 U1' as minimum instead of"5.1"as minimum) for the application to be supported explicitly call this point on their product detailed pages.  When in doubt, consult Cisco Plan, design, implement (PDI) HelpDesk or Cisco TAC.
  • Supports hardware - version for a major/minor taken ESXi supported by Cisco's Collaboration applications, recommendation is to use the latest version of Maintenance which is also supported / recommended by the provider of servers (and storage if provider deployment to NAS/SAN).  To determine if a fix or a Maintenance of ESXi version "may" or "should" be deployed, follow the advice of these sources:

Other "versions".

  • Version of VM (vmv) - the vmv represents the virtual hardware version. New versions of ESXi can increase the latest vmv, but ESXi versions always take care of the older versions of vmv (visit vmware.com for more information on the compatibility of the versions of vmv with ESXi versions). The "strict minimum" for Cisco's Collaboration applications is vmv4 and is usually transparent. Cisco-/ required files OVA will be for a particular version of vmv (e.g. OVAs for ESXi 5.x include vmv7 and vmv8). Unless is not a Cisco Collaboration application, customers are free to upgrade manually the vmv to a most recent vmv supported by the version of ESXi (click here for more details ).
  • File system VMFS (Virtual Machine) version - this is transparent to the applications of Cisco's Collaboration, but recommends using the latest version available for the major/minor version of VMware vSphere, ESXi, you deploy on.

below that you have links to specific applications of version indicating compatibility with ESXi versions.

HTH,

Chris

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