Upgraded Vicidial to new server hardware and VM's recently and found it extremely difficult in concept to take the plunge. The below guide is a brief to demystify how to install it using Vicibox v9. If you are migrating from an existing there are special steps to do, these are are optional steps are marked as #migrate . Vicidial Server Cluster overview: Vicidial servers have the role types: Database, Telephony, Web, Archive. Based upon the infratructure intent these can be one one or many m/c's; we choose to have each of these servers as a separete instances. When seperate, the servers need to be installed in the order: database, archive, web, Telephony (n times). Each can be done in under 10m, though the database took us about 20m given the size of our tar.gz is ~200mb. Pre-requisite & assumption: Download ViciBox ISO (here's a list of download for vicibox ) You can install VM's rapidly from HyperV; created a Gen 1 box; setting the ISO as the installation CD. Ste