CWMS Installation and

Deployment
Jyothi V
jyv@cisco.com
March 16, 2015
CWMS OVA Installation
Agenda

• The basic system requirements for the OVA installation

• and also the step-by-step procedure for creating CWMS
VM
System Requirements
Hardware

• UCS C220 M3
• UCS B200 M3
• Older versions acceptable but these
are recommended for better user
experience
IP and DNS requirements

Non-split Horizon DNS

<admin-vm-FQDN> <admin-vm-IP-address>

<media-vm-FQDN> <media-vm-IP-address>

<web-vm-FQDN> <web-vm-IP-address>

<IRP-vm-FQDN> <IRP-vm-IP-address>

<Administration-site-URL> <Private-VIP-address>

<WebEx-site-URL> <Public-VIP-address>

Split-horizon DNS

<Administration-site-URL> <Private-VIP-address>

<WebEx-site-URL> <Private-VIP-address>

Note
• Public VIP and IRP VM IP - same subnet

• Private VIP and Internal VM IP(admin, media and web) - same subnet
CWMS System
Deployment
Types of System Deployment

• Automatic : Only for 50, 250 and 800 user

system
• Manual : Supported for all system sizes
Public VIP

• Must be visible from both internet and internal network

(for split-horizon DNS)
• Must be on same subnet as the IRP
Private VIP

• Administration URL is mapped to private VIP

• For split-horizon, the webex-site URL of internal users is
mapped to private VIP
• Must be on same subnet as your internal (Admin and
Media, if applicable) VM
System check

• Verifies the configuration parameters of the system and

validates the webex site and administration URLs
• If the page is reloaded, you are returned to the first page
of system deployment
Additional resources

• CWMS planning guide

• CWMS Admin guide