Thursday, April 26, 2012

Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) VM Appliance

Prefer the small footprint and virtualized deployment model?  VCS Control and Expressway appliances are now available as VMWare appliances with the VCS 7.1 code. 

For those interested in the minimum specs and supported configurations, please see the deployment guide.

It is important to note that there are some unsupported features with this initial version of the VM appliance.
  1. ESXi 4.1 compatible, but not ESXi 5.  During testing there was a problem related to an LSI RAID card that caused an issue.
  2. VMWare fault tolerant mode is not supported because the VCS uses dual cores.  VMotion IS supported.