[cisco-voip] CallManager 5 license for VMWare

[Vince Loschiavo]

I'll be sure to bring it up in the CIPTUG meeting this week.

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From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Charles
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 12:36 PM
To: cisco voip
Subject: [cisco-voip] CallManager 5 license for VMWare


OK, I am getting a LOT of people telling me to run DMA on a CallManager
4.1 and 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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