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Install, Upgrade, and Maintenance Guide for Cisco Unity Connection Release 10.x
Chapter1 Installing CiscoUnity Connection
Pre-Installation Tasks
Creating a Virtual Machine
To download the OVA template for creating virtual machines, open the following link, select Unity
Connection Software, and then select the appropriate release number:
http://software.cisco.com/download/type.html?mdfid=283062758&flowid=45673.
To Create a Virtual Machine:
Step1 To deploy the OVA template in a supported VMware client, from the File menu, select Deploy OVA
template.
Step2 Next, browse the OVA template from the URL or file location on the system.
Step3 Follow on-screen instructions to create the virtual machine.
Step4 Configure an external NTP server during a Unity Connection
server installation.
For a Unity Connection cluster, the NTP server helps to
synchronize time between publisher and subscriber server.
Ensure the external NTP server is stratum 9 or higher
(meaning stratums 1-9). The subscriber server will get its
time from the publisher server.
To verify the NTP status of the publisher server, log into the
Command Line Interface on the publisher server and enter
the following command:
utils ntp status
For more information, see the Command Line
Interface Reference Guide for Cisco Unified
Solutions for the latest release, available at
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/unified-comm
unications/unity-connection/products-maintenance-g
uides-list.html.
Caution If the publisher server fails to synchronize
with an NTP server, installation of a
subscriber server can also fail.
Step5 Record the network interface card (NIC) speed and duplex
settings of the switch port that connects to the new server.
Enable PortFast on all switch ports that are connected
to Cisco servers. With PortFast enabled, the switch
immediately brings a port from the blocking state into
the forwarding state by eliminating the forwarding
delay [the amount of time that a port waits before
changing from its Spanning-Tree Protocol (STP)
learning and listening states to the forwarding state].
Step6 Record the configurations settings for each server that you
plan to install.
To record your configuration settings, see the
Gathering Information for Installation, page 1-5
section.
Step7 Download the signed .iso file of required Unity Connection
version from Cisco.com.Upload it on a data store or burn a
disk image of the downloaded software.
Download from the given link:
http://software.cisco.com/download/navigator.html?
mdfid=280082558&i=rm.
Table1-1 Pre-Installation Tasks
Task Important Notes