[cisco-voip] CallManager 5 license for VMWare

[Jonathan Charles]

OK, I am getting a LOT of people telling me to run DMA on a
CallManager 4.1and just go get a license for my
CCM5.0(4) installation on VMWare.

Well, I finally actually tried it, and all of my fears have been realized
and here is a formal response to all.

When you go to get the license, you get the following after entering a MAC
that begins with 005056....

"Please Enter a Valid MAC Address"

So, there it is. VMWare is supported by the application (you can install,
but cannot activate any services, so you can't do any training on your own).
And completely unsupported for testing purposes.

Here's the funny part.

I use VMWare to ensure that my backups work (I restore my backup twice a
month to a VMWare box running 4.1(3) to make sure the data migrated). Since
I can't do that with CallManager 5, and since I cannot install CallManager 5
in my lab (we are not going to buy a dedicated 7835 just for testing and
training), I am forced to recommend to all of my customers NOT to install
CallManager 5 and to stick with 4.1 and 4.2.

I would strongly urge Cisco to remedy this situation and provide partners
with a two-node, ten-phone 30-day training license for VMWare.



Jonathan
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