Has anyone (successfully) virtualized the VMPro PC?

[BWB8771]

The crash of our VMPro PC yesterday compels us to move it from a physical machine to a VMWare virtual PC.

Does anyone have any experience with this? In my Googling, I'm getting just as my "pro" recommendations as I am "con" ones.

IP 500 8.1(63)
VMPro 8.1.9016
46/5610s, 46/5621+25s

 

[R3LzX]

plenty of times, I read what you have to say here and you say "PC" in my experience you should never ever install Voicemail pro on a PC or PC related operating system. Will it work? yes, Should you do it? absolutely not. Get a decent server drop ESXI on it and if you can dedicate a Nic port to the VM as once in a blue moon you can have connection issues when voicemail pro licenses are exceeded. (this can happen on a hardware server as well)

I currently have about 20 or so virtualized servers 2003 Server and 2008 Server. Runs fine.

 

[intrigrant]

We have never had any problem with VMPro on a PC or on a virtualized PC, eiter windows or linux.
It is completely bullsh*t to state that a VMPro on a PC won't work and if you have the experience it will never ever work on a PC then you are doing something totally wrong.
In my experience it does not matter how you deploy VM Pro, either on a PC or virtualized it will work just fine.
A good practice is to disable power configuration and automatic updates and do not use the windows remote desktop for remote access, use VNC, Teamviewer or any other remote support software instead.

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[BWB8771]

We had the Avaya suite of programs Manager/Monitor/VMPro all running on a WinXPPro PC, and it was working beautifully. Even RDP wasn't an issue - although since it's just my boss and I, we only used a single "user" instead of trying to maintain our own user profiles on the PC.

IP 500 8.1(63)
VMPro 8.1.9016
46/5610s, 46/5621+25s

 

[intrigrant]

RDP on a windows desktop machine is fine as only one user session is allowed. RDP to a server will be a problem when the VM Pro service will run multiple times which can happen on some software versions and as you mention release 6, that is one of them.
If you have a win 7 or 8 workstation then install the software as you had on XP and you'll be fine, only Voicemail to email wont work as win 7 or 8 doesn't have a default SMTP mail client, if necessery use a alternative instead ( MS Outlook. Firefox or what ever )

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[amriddle01]

If you have a mail server it will work without any mail client installed, I have done it a couple of times now. Go to Control Panel and enter the SMTP settings required, ignore the pop up window that says no profile/client loaded and just close it, validate the settings which should restart the VM Pro service if not do it manually and off you go, has worked just fine for me



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