[cisco-voip] OVA files

Matthew Saskin msaskin at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 15:51:33 EST 2012 

9.0 requires ELM (enterprise license manager) for license management.  You
can request 9.0 demo licenses from the Cisco licensing page and then load
them via ELM - similar to the previous lab license, just a different
process (and unfortunately not perpetual lab licenses like before).

-matthew

Matthew Saskin
msaskin at gmail.com
203-253-9571



On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:05 AM, cisco.voip <cisco.voip at verizon.net> wrote:

>  Cool, thanks guys, I am using ESXi 5.1 and it installed successfully.
> Now need to get around the damn 60 day eval, unlike the 7.x where you get
> the 50 DLU's to Lab with without limitation.
> I am slowly getting to the point of considering evaluating other UC
> solutions due to licensing and support difficulties with Cisco.
>
>
> On 11/12/2012 11:42 PM, Anthony Holloway wrote:
>
> Looks like the major difference is ESXi 5.0 support on the vmv8 one.
>  Which do you have ESXi 4 or 5?
>
>  Here's a table that shows vmx-08 supports ESXi 5.0 and vmx-07 supports
> ESXi 4.0/4.1:
>
> http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003746
>
>  This what I went through out of my own curiosity...
>
>  Here's a diff on the read me's (Shows support for ESXi 5.0):
>
>   *avholloway at holloway-server:~/Downloads$* diff vmv7.txt vmv8.txt
>  29c29
>  < - ESXi support: ESXi 4.0 (VM version 7) and beyond
>  ---
>  > - ESXi support: ESXi 5.0 (VM version 8) and beyond
>
>
>  Here's a diff on the OVF's (vmx-07 to cmx-08 change):
>
>   *avholloway at holloway-server:~/Downloads$* diff
> vmv7/cucm_9.0_vmv7_v1.5.ovf vmv8/cucm_9.0_vmv8_v1.5.ovf
>  4,7c4,7
>  <     <File ovf:href="cucm_9.0_vmv7_v1.5-disk1.vmdk" ovf:id="60gb"
> ovf:size="85504"/>
>  <     <File ovf:href="cucm_9.0_vmv7_v1.5-disk2.vmdk" ovf:id="80gb"
> ovf:size="88576"/>
>  <     <File ovf:href="cucm_9.0_vmv7_v1.5-disk3.vmdk" ovf:id="160gbpart1"
> ovf:size="99840"/>
>  <     <File ovf:href="cucm_9.0_vmv7_v1.5-disk4.vmdk" ovf:id="160gbpart2"
> ovf:size="80896"/>
>  ---
>  >     <File ovf:href="cucm_9.0_vmv8_v1.5-disk1.vmdk" ovf:id="60gb"
> ovf:size="85504"/>
>  >     <File ovf:href="cucm_9.0_vmv8_v1.5-disk2.vmdk" ovf:id="80gb"
> ovf:size="88576"/>
>  >     <File ovf:href="cucm_9.0_vmv8_v1.5-disk3.vmdk" ovf:id="160gbpart1"
> ovf:size="99840"/>
>  >     <File ovf:href="cucm_9.0_vmv8_v1.5-disk4.vmdk" ovf:id="160gbpart2"
> ovf:size="80896"/>
>  101c101
>  <         <vssd:VirtualSystemType>vmx-07</vssd:VirtualSystemType>
>  ---
>  >         <vssd:VirtualSystemType>vmx-08</vssd:VirtualSystemType>
>
>
>  Here are the diffs on the vmdks (Shows only the CIDs are different):
>
>   *Note: I did a hex dump on the vmdks first
>
>
>   *avholloway at holloway-server:~/Downloads$* diff vmv7/disk1.hex
> vmv8/disk1.hex
>  10c10
>  < 00000220  0a 43 49 44 3d 62 66 62  62 34 61 66 66 20 0a 70
>  |.CID=bfbb4aff .p|
>  ---
>  > 00000220  0a 43 49 44 3d 37 63 38  34 66 39 32 35 20 0a 70
>  |.CID=7c84f925 .p|
>
>  *avholloway at holloway-server:~/Downloads$* diff vmv7/disk2.hex
> vmv8/disk2.hex
>  10c10
>  < 00000220  0a 43 49 44 3d 63 30 62  32 34 31 36 39 20 0a 70
>  |.CID=c0b24169 .p|
>  ---
>  > 00000220  0a 43 49 44 3d 37 64 37  65 38 33 31 34 20 0a 70
>  |.CID=7d7e8314 .p|
>
>  *avholloway at holloway-server:~/Downloads$* diff vmv7/disk3.hex
> vmv8/disk3.hex
>  10c10
>  < 00000220  0a 43 49 44 3d 63 31 61  62 61 30 35 66 20 0a 70
>  |.CID=c1aba05f .p|
>  ---
>  > 00000220  0a 43 49 44 3d 37 65 37  36 30 31 64 34 20 0a 70
>  |.CID=7e7601d4 .p|
>
>  *avholloway at holloway-server:~/Downloads$* diff vmv7/disk4.hex
> vmv8/disk4.hex
>  10c10
>  < 00000220  0a 43 49 44 3d 63 33 62  62 31 39 66 63 20 0a 70
>  |.CID=c3bb19fc .p|
>  ---
>  > 00000220  0a 43 49 44 3d 38 30 39  30 64 32 63 38 20 0a 70
>  |.CID=8090d2c8 .p|
>
>
>  Here is the diff on the mf file (Shows the hashes have changed; as they
> should since the files are different):
>
>   *avholloway at holloway-server:~/Downloads$* diff
> vmv7/cucm_9.0_vmv7_v1.5.mf vmv8/cucm_9.0_vmv8_v1.5.mf
>  1,5c1,5
>  < SHA1(cucm_9.0_vmv7_v1.5.ovf)= 8b61059a00df9fb6e18c602eadaaf344732b4d7e
>  < SHA1(cucm_9.0_vmv7_v1.5-disk1.vmdk)=
> f52ac9884402c9a92cd402d9c2bd6a9c6954921a
>  < SHA1(cucm_9.0_vmv7_v1.5-disk2.vmdk)=
> 4979b93ddefdf2b5d6d36b8e805238d5e029bf0f
>  < SHA1(cucm_9.0_vmv7_v1.5-disk3.vmdk)=
> a0ebea5bae7279a044577b443915eb62cc071643
>  < SHA1(cucm_9.0_vmv7_v1.5-disk4.vmdk)=
> f60ef4aa81f10e59541f8ab096bad45109db221a
>  ---
>  > SHA1(cucm_9.0_vmv8_v1.5.ovf)= 89ab0d6b0ec22f0c2684c19ee8c948ba70f61490
>   > SHA1(cucm_9.0_vmv8_v1.5-disk1.vmdk)=
> ebf50679017dc8aa855f1319fe57f76c1c1ba213
>  > SHA1(cucm_9.0_vmv8_v1.5-disk2.vmdk)=
> a2d9fe45d2c4b72f65ef39a7deb60b15b5ce5303
>  > SHA1(cucm_9.0_vmv8_v1.5-disk3.vmdk)=
> db2542a16b15c3dced925d7867082d92e67e5ade
>  > SHA1(cucm_9.0_vmv8_v1.5-disk4.vmdk)=
> 3acd8e346a31fdd2ff26f6bcba3c9fafa7c65b00
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:16 PM, cisco.voip <cisco.voip at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> All, have looked around, but can anyone tell me the difference between
>> these two files -
>> cucm_9.0_vmv7_v1.5.ova
>> cucm_9.0_vmv8_v1.5.ova
>> I am getting ready to install 9.0 and trying to figure out which template
>> to use-
>>
>> Thanks
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