[cisco-voip] Expiring demo licences - WAS: RE: OVA files

Ian Tait ian.t at thoughtbubble.net
Tue Nov 13 18:42:32 EST 2012 

I have seen other posts on this subject, and I may be a bit dim(!), but still I really don't understand the wherewithall behind (what I understand of) the Cisco 'demo' scenario for a software product that one might want to try out.

"We're looking at replacing our current phone system - lets have a look at the current Cisco offering - download a demo and lets try it out." - er, OK Boss...

Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Ian




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From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Saskin
Sent: 13 November 2012 20:52
To: cisco.voip
Cc: Cisco VoIP Group
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] OVA files

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
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203-253-9571



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