I am currently involved in a project to integrate CUCM 6.1 to Microsoft AD. I want to test this in a lab first and I tried to install CUCM 6.1 on a Cisco MCS 7835 yesterday and was unsuccessful because the server has no bootable DVD drive. I have managed to build another server which is a DELL PowerEdge 2850 and am hoping to install CUCM on there. I think I will probably get an error saying that the hardware is not supported and the install is cancelled.
My question is if I install VMware first on the Dell, install CUCM on this and then take a back up of the our live Call Manager and install this in the CUCM on VMware in the lab. Would this work?
