<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">It still exists - there is an Answer File Generator that builds a couple XML files that you put onto a virtual floppy (.flp) and attach to the VM. If everything has been done properly, no interaction inside the VM console is necessary, just power on the VM(s) with the ISO and FLP attached and wait. Here is a reference to the procedure and a link to the web-based Answer File Generator: <a href="https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/install/11_0_1/CUCM_BK_IDF93684_00_installing-cucm_1101/Installation_tasks.html#CUCM_RF_A74B96FC_00">https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/install/11_0_1/CUCM_BK_IDF93684_00_installing-cucm_1101/Installation_tasks.html#CUCM_RF_A74B96FC_00</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">You could also just use PCD which is free!<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">When it comes to automating the deployment of the VMs via the OVAs or some other means, I don't think Cisco has ever published any tools that do this piece. There are certainly publicly available vSphere APIs that I believe could be used to automate this part of the process. I'd love to find out if anyone has an example of something they've either bought or built that does this part. I'd love to buy a tool that completely automates the whole process of building out a set of Collaboration cluster apps (not just UCM, but others VM apps in the suite as well).<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 3:41 PM Lelio Fulgenzi <<a href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca">lelio@uoguelph.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> cisco-voip <<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>>
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<b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] Automated cluster building? (devops tools)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm looking into what we need in a non-prod environment and I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Has anyone used standard devops tools to automate the build of clusters? I doubt I'm going to find anything that would be an "IaaS for
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<p class="MsoNormal">What are other people doing for the problem of needing repeatable and quick development environments? There has to be a better way than building a new cluster from scratch, which can take hours. I can hit a button and deploy a full cluster
of linux servers, all of the containers they need, DNS, the virtual network to connect them all, and everything else needed to be production ready (and it will be done in a few minutes), but I have to spend DAYS making a dev CUCM environment. What am I missing?<u></u><u></u></p>
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