Reference9:Concept Innovaphone Virtual Appliance

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Applies To

This information applies to:

  • V9
  • innovaphone Virtual Appliance
  • Intel/AMD CPUs
  • VMware
    • Workstation 7.1
    • Player 3.x [1]
    • ESX 4.x
Tools clipart.png FIXME: ESX 4.x-compliance is still theory-only

More Information

The innovaphone Virtual Appliance (IPVA) is a virtual machine to be run on a virtualization platform. Whereby, VMware[2] is is the solely supported virtualization platform to-date

The IPVA is a software-only solution. It appears as and performs as an innovaphone "hard-box" excluding DSP-, ISDN-/AB-resources.

The following core-components are contained within the IPVA:

  • innovaphone PBX
  • innovaphone Gateway (a.k.a Relay)
  • integrated mass-storage (alike innovaphones' CF-card support)


Limitations

The IPVA cannot terminate conferences. As of today the required DSP-resource is not emulated.

Configuration

Download the IPVA. The IPVA is a directory containing:

  • ipva.vmx: The virtual machine configuration file
  • hd-boot.vmdk: The virtual boot harddisk (hd)
  • hd-cf.vmdk: The hd for emulation of a Compact Flash card
  • hd-flash.vmdk: The hd for emulation of flash memory
  • hd-dump.vmdk: The hd serving as a store for a crash dump

VMware Player/Workstation

  • Copy the IPVA to e.g. your desktop
  • Double-click on ipva.vmx

The IPVA is going to be started.

A shortcut (*.lnk file) to the vmx-file will start the IPVA without additional user interaction. Such a shortcut may also be copied into the Windows Autostart program folder, in order to have the IPVA started automatically on windows startup.

Network Configuration

Currently as DHCP client only. I.e. a DHCP server must be available.

License Configuration

Tools clipart.png FIXME: integrate into my.innovaphone.com

The IPVA is not yet integrated into my.innovaphone.com. Therefore and until further notice licenses are available only by the means of Administration/PBX/General/Slave PBX/Master,License Only.

Download

Tools clipart.png FIXME: download currently from "unofficial"

http://download.innovaphone.com/ice/download/p/published/Firmware%20Version%209/

Troubleshooting

A new option has been added to Admistration/Diagnostics/Tracing. The option trace(crash-dump) is going to read a post-mortem log from hd-dump.vmdk, if available.

Known Issues

ESX 3.x is unsupported

The IPVA does not run under ESX 3.x and below, since virtual IDE disks aren't supported.

FAQ

Are Firmware Updates Possible?

Yes, alike the well-known *.bin firmware files for other innovaphone products (ip6000.bin, ip2000.bin,..) , there's a similar bin-file (ipva.bin) for the IPVA. The file is contained on the boot-hd and can be found by browsing to e.g. http://192.168.0.5/drive/HD-BOOT . The versioning of ipva.bin is the same as for the other products. The firmware file may exactly be uploaded as for other products:

  • by Upload/Firmware
  • by Upload/Dram
  • by a script for the innovaphone Update Process

How Is The Network Connection Being Handled?

The network connection is pre-configured to: Bridged: Connected directly to the physical network

Notes