Installation guide

Deploying ShoreTel servers under VMware Server Requirements
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Deploying ShoreTel servers under VMware
For details on how to deploy ShoreTel servers under VMware, see the example given in ShoreTel
Application Note AN 10391, “Deploying ShoreTel Servers under VMware 5.0,” on the ShoreTel
Partners web site: http://support.shoretel.com/.
Requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V Environments
Hyper-V is the Microsoft virtual computing infrastructure, consisting of Hyper-V servers, Hyper-V
Manager, and related components.
This section provides information necessary to install the ShoreTel system software on servers running
Hyper-V.
Supported Configurations and Hyper-V Features
ShoreTel supports the following configurations and features on Hyper-V:
 ShoreTel 14.2 and later
 ShoreTel HQ and DVS servers with 2 to 8 virtual CPUs (the minimum recommended VM size is 2
virtual CPUs)
ShoreTel Capacities in Hyper-V Environments
When you create a virtual machine (VM), you must specify various properties related to size, such as
the number of CPUs, the amount of memory, and the size of the disk.
Table 38 provides the recommended configuration values for small, medium, and large ShoreTel
deployments.
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Note
The values shown in Table 38 are typical, but they may not be appropriate for all deployments.
Table 38: Recommended Sizing Parameters
System
Size
Users
Call
Load
per
System
Call
Load
per
Server
(w/o
Reports)
Minimum
Virtual
Processors
per VM
RAM per
VM
(GB)
Storage
System
Through-
put
(MB/s)
Voice
Network
Through-
put
(Mb/s)
Disk
Size per
HQ VM
(GB)
Disk
Size per
DVS VM
(GB)
Small 500 5,000 1,000 2 4 0.17 16 60 40
Medium 2,500 25,000 5,000 4 8 0.83 80 150 80
Large 10,000 50,000 10,000 8 8 3.1 320 260 130