Avaya Aura® Virtualized Environment integrates real-time Avaya Aura® applications with VMware® virtualized server architecture.

Using Avaya Aura® Virtualized Environment, customers with a VMware IT infrastructure can upgrade to the next release level of collaboration using their own VMware infrastructure. For customers who need to add more capacity or application interfaces, Avaya Aura® applications on VMware offer flexible solutions for expansion. For customers who want to migrate to the latest collaboration solutions, Avaya Aura® Virtualized Environment provides a hardware-efficient simplified solution for upgrading to the latest Avaya Aura® release and adding the latest Avaya Aura® capabilities.

The Virtualized Environment project applies only for VMware and does not include any other industry hypervisor. Virtualized Environment project is inclusive of the Avaya Aura® portfolio.

For deployment on VMware-certified hardware, Avaya SBC is packaged as vAppliance ready Open Virtualization Environment (OVA) to run in the virtualized environment. Avaya SBC is also available for VMware-based deployments.

You can deploy EMS and SBC software using a single OVA file.

Avaya SBC supports VMware features, such as vMotion, HA across data centers, and mixed hardware configurations.

The Avaya SBC OVA files are offered as vAppliance for EMS and Avaya SBC configurations. The OVA file is available the Avaya Support Site or from the Avaya Product Licensing and Delivery System (PLDS).

For more information, see Deploying Avaya Session Border Controller on a Virtualized Environment Platform.