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| CISCO CUSTOMER COLLABORATION PLATFORM (CCP) 12.5(1) VIRTUAL SERVER TEMPLATE (OVA) |
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1.0 OVERVIEW
2.0 SCOPE
3.0 DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS
4.0 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
5.0 CHANGELOG
6.0 NOTES
7.0 TRADEMARKS AND NOTICES


1.0 OVERVIEW
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The Cisco CCP 12.5(1) Virtual Server Template (OVA) defines a virtual machine configuration that
is supported in the CCP 12.5(1) release. This OVA contains all supported virtual machine
configurations of this release. Any fresh installation of CCP 12.5(1) must use a virtual machine
created from this OVA.


2.0 SCOPE
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The template is an OVA (open virtual appliance) file that can be imported/deployed using the OVF (Open
Virtualization Format) support of VMware. The OVA file defines the following for the virtual machine
based on the deployment selected:

    - Number of virtual CPUs
    - Amount of RAM
    - Number and size of hard disks
    - ESXi support: ESXi 6.5* (see DISCLAIMER below for ESXi 6.5 support)
    - OS Support: CentOS 7 (64-bit)

(*) DISCLAIMER: Support for ESXi 6.5 has the following important considerations:
    - If you are upgrading from ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5, keep the VM file system version as VMFS5. There is no need to update the VM file system to VMFS6.
    - If you are freshly creating a VM on ESXi 6.5, use VM File system version as VMFS5 only.


3.0 DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS
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There are two available deployment options:

    - CCP Large Deployment

        Virtual Machine Template for CCP Large Deployment Profile.

        Details:
        CentOS 7 (64-bit)
        CPU: 4 vCPU with 8000 MHz reservation
        Memory: 12 GB with 12 GB reservation
        Disk 1: 146 GB disk
        Disk 2: 256 GB disk

    - CCP Small Deployment

        Virtual Machine Template for CCP Small Deployment Profile.

        Details:
        CentOS 7 (64-bit)
        CPU: 2 vCPU with 4390 MHz reservation
        Memory: 8 GB with 8 GB reservation
        Disk 1: 80 GB disk
        Disk 2: 80 GB disk


4.0 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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Import the OVA using the vSphere Client:

    1) Select File --> Deploy OVF Template to start the import.

    2) Navigate to and select the OVA file downloaded from Cisco.

    3) Provide the VM name, and then select the server and the data store.

    4) Verify the deployment settings and finish the deployment.

    5) After the VM is created, proceed with CCP installation.


5.0 CHANGELOG
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The following are changes from the OVA in the previous release:

	1) Network adapter changed to VMXNET3

	2) OS changed to CentOS 7 (64-bit)
	
	3) Virtual Hardware Version changed to 13, this is supported on ESXi version 6.5 and greater.


6.0 NOTES
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1) Operating System version is changed to CentOS 7 (64-bit)

2) Network Adapter type is selected to be VMXNET3 to get the best performance.

3) Video Card memory size is set to 8 MB


7.0 TRADEMARKS AND NOTICES
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